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Matthew 21:18-22 JESUS CURSES A FIG TREE 18 Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered. 20 When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?” they…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2031:9-16;%20Lamentations%203:55-66;%20Mark%2010:32-34 Mark 10:32-34  (NIV) 32 They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him. 33 “We are going up to…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2031:9-16;%20Job%2013:13-19;%20Philippians%201:21-30 Job 13:13-19  (NIV) 13 “Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may.14 Why do I put myself in jeopardy and take my life in my hands?15 Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely[a] defend my ways to his face.16 Indeed, this will turn out for my…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2031:9-16;%201%20Samuel%2016:11-13;%20Philippians%201:1-11 Psalm 31:9-16 9 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow,    my soul and body with grief. 10 My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.11 Because of…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20146;%20Isaiah%2060:17-22;%20Matthew%209:27-34 Isaiah 60:15-22 15 “Although you have been forsaken and hated, with no one traveling through,I will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all generations. 16 You will drink the milk of nations and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20143;%202%20Kings%204:18-37;%20Ephesians%202:1-10 Ephesians 2:1-10  2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20143;%201%20Kings%2017:17-24;%20Acts%2020:7-12 Psalm 143 1 Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief. 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,    for no one living is righteous before you. 3 The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell…

Daily Scripture: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=28 Ezekiel 37:1-1437:1 The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 37:2 He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 37:3 He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20130;%20Ezekiel%2036:8-15;%20Luke%2024:44-53 Ezekiel 36:8-15  (NIV) 8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home. 9 I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown, 10 and I will cause many people to live on you—yes,…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20130;%20Ezekiel%2033:10-16;%20Revelation%2011:15-19 Ezekiel 33:10-16 0 “Son of man, say to the Israelites, ‘This is what you are saying: “Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of[a] them. How then can we live?”’ 11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20130;%20Ezekiel%201:1-3,%202:8-3:3;%20Revelation%2010:1-11                                                           Psalm 130 1 Out of the depths, I cry to you, Lord; 2 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive    to my cry for mercy. 3 If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you there…

Daily Scriptures: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=328 Psalm 40:5-1040:5 You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you. Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be counted. 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20146;%20Isaiah%2042:14-21;%20Colossians%201:9-14 Isaiah 42:14-21 14 “For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back.But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant.15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation;I will turn rivers into islands and dry…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20146;%20Isaiah%2059:9-19;%20Acts%209:1-20 Isaiah 59:9-19 9 So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us.We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.10 Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like people without eyes.At midday we stumble as if it were…

Daily Scriptures: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=27 1 Samuel 16:1-1316:1 The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”16:2 Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2023;%201%20Samuel%2015:32-34;%20John%201:1-9 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light…

Daily Scriptures: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2023;%201%20Samuel%2015:22-31;%20Ephesians%205:1-9 1 Samuel 15:22-31 22 But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the…