Sunday, November 12, 2023
1 Chronicles 17:16–27
16Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and
he said:
"Who am I, O
LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? 17And
as if this were not enough in your sight, O God, you have spoken about the
future of the house of your servant. You have looked on me as though I were the
most exalted of men, O LORD God.
18"What more can David say to you for honoring
your servant? For you know your servant, 19O LORD. For the sake of
your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and
made known all these great promises.
20"There is no one like you, O LORD, and there is
no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. 21And who is
like your people Israel--the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a
people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and
awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you
redeemed from Egypt? 22You made your people Israel your very own
forever, and you, O LORD, have become their God.
23"And now, LORD, let the promise you have made
concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you
promised, 24so that it will be established and that your name will
be great forever. Then men will say, 'The LORD Almighty, the God over Israel,
is Israel's God!' And the house of your servant David will be established
before you.
25"You, my God, have revealed to your servant
that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray
to you. 26O LORD, you are God! You have promised these good things
to your servant. 27Now you have been pleased to bless the house of
your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, O LORD, have
blessed it, and it will be blessed forever."
Psalm
119:41–48
41May your
unfailing love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise; 42then
I will answer the one who taunts me, for I trust in your word. 43Do
not snatch the word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your
laws. 44I will always obey your law, for ever and ever. 45I
will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts. 46I
will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame, 47for
I delight in your commands because I love them. 48I lift up my hands
to your commands, which I love, and I meditate on your decrees.
1
Corinthians 1:1–17
1Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the
will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified
in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who
call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--their Lord and ours:
3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
4I always thank God for you because of his grace
given you in Christ Jesus. 5For in him you have been enriched in
every way--in all your speaking and in all your knowledge-- 6because
our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you. 7Therefore you do
not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be
revealed. 8He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be
blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God, who has called
you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
10I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no
divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. 11My
brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels
among you. 12What I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow
Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow
Cephas"; still another, "I follow Christ."
13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were
you baptized into the name of Paul? 14I am thankful that I did not
baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15so no one can say that
you were baptized into my name. 16(Yes, I also baptized the
household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don't remember if I baptized anyone
else.) 17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the
gospel--not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of
its power.
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