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Daily Readings for January 30
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Exodus 1
1.Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 2.Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3.Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4.Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5.All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. 6.Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. 7.The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8.Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph. 9.He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 10.Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land." 11.Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. 12.But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13.The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 14.and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
15.The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, 16.and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." 17.But the midwives feared God,1 and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. 18.The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"
19.The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
20.God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty. 21.It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families. 22.Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
Exodus 2
1.A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 2.The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3.When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. 4.His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him. 5.Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it. 6.She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
7.Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"
8.Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."
The maiden went and called the child's mother. 9.Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages."
The woman took the child, and nursed it. 10.The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,2 and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
11.It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 12.He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13.He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
14.He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?"
Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." 15.Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
16.Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17.The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18.When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"
19.They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."
20.He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
21.Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. 22.She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,3 for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."
23.It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24.God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25.God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
Psalm 53
1.The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. 2.God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God. 3.Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one. 4.Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God? 5.There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. 6.Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Psalm 54
1.Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might. 2.Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth. 3.For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah. 4.Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul. 5.He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth. 6.With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good. 7.For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
Psalm 55
1.Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication. 2.Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan, 3.Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me. 4.My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. 5.Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me. 6.I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. 7.Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah. 8."I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm." 9.Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10.Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her. 11.Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets. 12.For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. 13.But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. 14.We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company. 15.Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol22. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst. 16.As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me. 17.Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice. 18.He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me. 19.God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah.
They never change, who don't fear God. 20.He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant. 21.His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
22.Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved. 23.But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Romans 7
1.Or don't you know, brothers17 (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? 2.For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 3.So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. 4.Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. 5.For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death. 6.But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7.What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."[18] 8.But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9.I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10.The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 11.for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12.Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
13.Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful. 14.For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 15.For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. 16.But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 17.So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 18.For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. 19.For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. 20.But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 21.I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. 22.For I delight in God's law after the inward man, 23.but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24.What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? 25.I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
Romans 8
1.There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.19 2.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. 3.For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; 4.that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5.For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6.For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 7.because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. 8.Those who are in the flesh can't please God. 9.But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. 10.If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11.But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 12.So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13.For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14.For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. 15.For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba20! Father!"
16.The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17.and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. 18.For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. 19.For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20.For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21.that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 22.For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. 23.Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. 24.For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? 25.But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience. 26.In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered. 27.He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
28.We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. 29.For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.21 30.Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
31.What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32.He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 33.Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34.Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35.Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36.Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."[22] 37.No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38.For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39.nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.