Psalm 119:89-96

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ל Lamedh

⁸⁹Your word, Lord, is eternal;^(A)
    it stands firm in the heavens.
⁹⁰Your faithfulness^(B) continues through all generations;^(C)
    you established the earth, and it endures.^(D)
⁹¹Your laws endure^(E) to this day,
    for all things serve you.^(F)
⁹²If your law had not been my delight,^(G)
    I would have perished in my affliction.^(H)
⁹³I will never forget^(I) your precepts,
    for by them you have preserved my life.^(J)
⁹⁴Save me,^(K) for I am yours;
    I have sought out your precepts.^(L)
⁹⁵The wicked are waiting to destroy me,^(M)
    but I will ponder your statutes.^(N)
⁹⁶To all perfection I see a limit,
    but your commands are boundless.^(O)

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Proverbs 27:5-6

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⁵Better is open rebuke
than hidden love.

⁶Wounds from a friend can be trusted,
but an enemy multiplies kisses.^(A)

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John 6:41-59

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⁴¹At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,^(A) whose father and mother we know?^(B) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”^(C)

⁴³“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,^(D) and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[a]^(E) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;^(F) only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.^(G) ⁴⁸I am the bread of life.^(H) ⁴⁹Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.^(I) ⁵⁰But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^(J) which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread^(K) that came down from heaven.^(L) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”^(M)

⁵²Then the Jews^(N) began to argue sharply among themselves,^(O) “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh^(P) of the Son of Man^(Q) and drink his blood,^(R) you have no life in you. ⁵⁴Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.^(S) ⁵⁵For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.^(T) ⁵⁷Just as the living Father sent me^(U) and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”^(V) ⁵⁹He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

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Footnotes

John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13

1 John 2:12-17

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Reasons for Writing

¹²I am writing to you, dear children,^(A)
    because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.^(B)
¹³I am writing to you, fathers,
    because you know him who is from the beginning.^(C)
I am writing to you, young men,
    because you have overcome^(D) the evil one.^(E)

¹⁴I write to you, dear children,^(F)
    because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
    because you know him who is from the beginning.^(G)
I write to you, young men,
    because you are strong,^(H)
    and the word of God^(I) lives in you,^(J)
    and you have overcome the evil one.^(K)

On Not Loving the World

¹⁵Do not love the world or anything in the world.^(L) If anyone loves the world, love for the Father^[a] is not in them.^(M) ¹⁶For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,^(N) the lust of the eyes,^(O) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. ¹⁷The world and its desires pass away,^(P) but whoever does the will of God^(Q) lives forever.