the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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October 24 - Old & New Testament
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Jeremiah 18,19
Parable of the Potter
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2 "Go down at once to the potter's house;(a) there I will reveal My words to you." 3 So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.[a] 4 But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter's hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.(b)
5 The word of the Lord came to me: 6 "House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?"—this is the Lord 's declaration. "Just like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.(c) 7 At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.(d) 8 However, if that nation I have made an announcement about turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.(e) 9 At another time I announce that I will build and plant a nation or a kingdom.(f) 10 However, if it does what is evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.(g) 11 So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem: This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.(h) 12 But they will say, ‘It's hopeless.(i) We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'"
Deluded Israel
13 Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
Ask among the nations,
Who has heard things like these?
Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.(j)
14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave the highland crags?
Or does cold water flowing from a distance ever fail?
15 Yet My people have forgotten Me.(k)
They burn incense to false idols
that make them stumble in their ways
on the ancient roads(l)
and walk on new paths, not the highway.
16 They have made their land a horror,(m)
a perpetual object of scorn;[b](n)
everyone who passes by it will be horrified(o)
and shake his head.(p)
17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.(q)
I will show them[c] My back and not My face
on the day of their calamity.
Plot against Jeremiah
18 Then certain ones said, "Come, let's make plans against Jeremiah,(r) for instruction will never be lost from the priest,(s) or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet.(t) Come, let's denounce him[d] and pay no attention to all his words."
19 Pay attention to me,
Lord
.
Hear what my opponents are saying!(u)
20 Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for me.(v)
Remember how I stood before You
to speak good on their behalf,
to turn Your anger from them.
21 Therefore, hand their children over to famine,(w)
and pour the sword's power on them.
Let their wives become childless and widowed,
their husbands slain by deadly disease,[e]
their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses
when You suddenly bring raiders against them,
for they have dug a pit to capture me
and have hidden snares for my feet.(x)
23 But You,
Lord
, know
all their deadly plots against me.
Do not wipe out their guilt;(y)
do not blot out their sin before You.
Let them be forced to stumble before You;
deal with them in the time of Your anger.
The Clay Jar
1 This is what the Lord says: "Go, buy a potter's clay(a) jar. Take[a] some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests(b) 2 and go out to the Valley of Hinnom(c) near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you. 3 Say: Hear the word of the Lord , kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.(d) This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will shudder[b](e) 4 because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.(f) 5 They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.[c](g)
6 "Therefore, take note! The days are coming"—this is the Lord 's declaration—"when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.(h) 7 I will spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who want to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.(i) 8 I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.(j) 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other's flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.(k)
10 "Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people traveling with you, 11 and you are to proclaim to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter's jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.(l) 12 I will do so to this place"—this is the declaration of the Lord —"and to its residents, making this city like Topheth. 13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host(m) and poured out drink offerings to other gods."
14 Jeremiah came back from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, stood in the courtyard of the Lord 's temple,(n) and proclaimed to all the people, 15 "This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city—and on all its dependent villages—all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.'"(o)
Colossians 3
Chapter 3
The Life of the New Man
1 So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.(a) 2 Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth.(b) 3 For you have died,(c) and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. 4 When the Messiah, who is your[a] life, is revealed,(d) then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.(e)
5 Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature:[b] sexual immorality, impurity,(f) lust,(g) evil desire, and greed,(h) which is idolatry.(i) 6 Because of these, God's wrath(j) comes on the disobedient,[c] 7 and you once walked in these things when you were living(k) in them. 8 But now you must also put away(l) all the following: anger,(m) wrath,(n) malice,(o) slander,(p) and filthy language from your mouth.(q) 9 Do not lie(r) to one another, since you have put off(s) the old self[d](t) with its practices 10 and have put on(u) the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your[e] Creator.(v) 11 In Christ[f] there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian,[g] slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.(w)
The Christian Life
12 Therefore, God's chosen ones, holy and loved,(x) put on heartfelt compassion, kindness,(y) humility,(z) gentleness,(aa) and patience,(ab) 13 accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.(ac) 14 Above all, put on love—the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called(ad) in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful. 16 Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name(ae) of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Christ in Your Home
18 Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.(af)
19 Husbands,(ag) love your wives(ah) and don't be bitter(ai) toward them.
20 Children,(aj) obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
21 Fathers,(ak) do not exasperate(al) your children, so they won't become discouraged.
22 Slaves, obey your human(am) masters in everything. Don't work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.(an)
23 Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically,[h] as something done for the Lord and not for men,(ao)
24 knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.
25 For the wrongdoer(ap) will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism.
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