Evening Meditations 11-6-2012

Acts 10 — ESV
1 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,
2 a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.
3 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, "Cornelius."
4 And he stared at him in terror and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
5 And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter.
6 He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea."
7 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him,
8 and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
9 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.
10 And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance
11 and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth.
12 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him: "Rise, Peter; kill and eat."
14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
15 And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common."
16 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
17 Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate
18 and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there.
19 And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you.
20 Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them."
21 And Peter went down to the men and said, "I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?"
22 And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say."
23 So he invited them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
24 And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him.
26 But Peter lifted him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am a man."
27 And as he talked with him, he went in and found many persons gathered.
28 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.
29 So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me."
30 And Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
31 and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.
32 Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.'
33 So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."
34 So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
36 As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),
37 you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed:
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
39 And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,
40 but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear,
41 not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
42 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
43 To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
45 And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
46 For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,
47 "Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?"
48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

Evening Meditation 8-27-2012

Psalms 22 — ESV
1 To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
3 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
4 In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
8 "He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"
9 Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
10 On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.
11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help.
12 Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
13 they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
15 my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
16 For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet--
17 I can count all my bones-- they stare and gloat over me;
18 they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But you, O LORD, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid!
20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!
21 Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!
22 I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
23 You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
26 The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
28 For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
29 All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.
30 Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
31 they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.

Evening Meditations 8-25-2012

Psalms 32 — ESV
1 A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
6 Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
7 You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
9 Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.
11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Psalms 129 — ESV
1 A Song of Ascents. "Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth"-- let Israel now say--
2 "Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows."
4 The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!
6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
8 nor do those who pass by say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!"









Psalms 118 — ESV
1 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
2 Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures forever."
3 Let the house of Aaron say, "His steadfast love endures forever."
4 Let those who fear the LORD say, "His steadfast love endures forever."
5 Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.
6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
7 The LORD is on my side as my helper; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.
8 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
9 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
10 All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
11 They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
12 They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
13 I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
15 Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly,
16 the right hand of the LORD exalts, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!"
17 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD.
18 The LORD has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.
20 This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.
21 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.
22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success!
26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD.
27 The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar!
28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.
29 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Evening Meditations 2011-5-12

ESV

Psa 18:1  To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O LORD, my strength.
Psa 18:2  The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psa 18:3  I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
Psa 18:4  The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me;
Psa 18:5  the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
Psa 18:6  In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
Psa 18:7  Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
Psa 18:8  Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
Psa 18:9  He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.
Psa 18:10  He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.
Psa 18:11  He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.
Psa 18:12  Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.
Psa 18:13  The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
Psa 18:14  And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.
Psa 18:15  Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
Psa 18:16  He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.
Psa 18:17  He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
Psa 18:18  They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.
Psa 18:19  He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me.
Psa 18:20  The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
Psa 18:21  For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psa 18:22  For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
Psa 18:23  I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt.
Psa 18:24  So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
Psa 18:25  With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
Psa 18:26  with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
Psa 18:27  For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.
Psa 18:28  For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.
Psa 18:29  For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
Psa 18:30  This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Psa 18:31  For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?--
Psa 18:32  the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.
Psa 18:33  He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.
Psa 18:34  He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Psa 18:35  You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great.
Psa 18:36  You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.
Psa 18:37  I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did not turn back till they were consumed.
Psa 18:38  I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.
Psa 18:39  For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.
Psa 18:40  You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.
Psa 18:41  They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
Psa 18:42  I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.
Psa 18:43  You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Psa 18:44  As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.
Psa 18:45  Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses.
Psa 18:46  The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation--
Psa 18:47  the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me,
Psa 18:48  who delivered me from my enemies; yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me; you rescued me from the man of violence.
Psa 18:49  For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing to your name.
Psa 18:50  Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.  

Pro 24:1  Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,
Pro 24:2  for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.
Pro 24:3  By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
Pro 24:4  by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Pro 24:5  A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
Pro 24:6  for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Pro 24:7  Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Pro 24:8  Whoever plans to do evil will be called a schemer.
Pro 24:9  The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.
Pro 24:10  If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Pro 24:11  Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
Pro 24:12  If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Pro 24:13  My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Pro 24:14  Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Pro 24:15  Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do no violence to his home;
Pro 24:16  for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
Pro 24:17  Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
Pro 24:18  lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.
Pro 24:19  Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked,
Pro 24:20  for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Pro 24:21  My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,
Pro 24:22  for disaster will arise suddenly from them, and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?
Pro 24:23  These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.
Pro 24:24  Whoever says to the wicked, "You are in the right," will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,
Pro 24:25  but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them.
Pro 24:26  Whoever gives an honest answer kisses the lips.
Pro 24:27  Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
Pro 24:28  Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Pro 24:29  Do not say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done."
Pro 24:30  I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,
Pro 24:31  and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Pro 24:32  Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.
Pro 24:33  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Pro 24:34  and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.  

Mat 16:1  And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Mat 16:2  He answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.'
Mat 16:3  And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
Mat 16:4  An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah." So he left them and departed.
Mat 16:5  When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.
Mat 16:6  Jesus said to them, "Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Mat 16:7  And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread."
Mat 16:8  But Jesus, aware of this, said, "O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?
Mat 16:9  Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
Mat 16:10  Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
Mat 16:11  How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Mat 16:12  Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mat 16:13  Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"
Mat 16:14  And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
Mat 16:15  He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Mat 16:16  Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mat 16:17  And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 16:18  And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Mat 16:20  Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
Mat 16:21  From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
Mat 16:22  And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you."
Mat 16:23  But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."
Mat 16:24  Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Mat 16:25  For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Mat 16:26  For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Mat 16:27  For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Mat 16:28  Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."  

Morning Meditations 2011-5-6

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Psa 7:1  A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
Psa 7:2  lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
Psa 7:3  O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
Psa 7:4  if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,
Psa 7:5  let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
Psa 7:6  Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Psa 7:7  Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.
Psa 7:8  The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Psa 7:9  Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous-- you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
Psa 7:10  My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
Psa 7:11  God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Psa 7:12  If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
Psa 7:13  he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
Psa 7:14  Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
Psa 7:15  He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
Psa 7:16  His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
Psa 7:17  I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

Pro 17:1  Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
Pro 17:2  A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
Pro 17:3  The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.
Pro 17:4  An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Pro 17:5  Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
Pro 17:6  Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
Pro 17:7  Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.
Pro 17:8  A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.
Pro 17:9  Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Pro 17:10  A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
Pro 17:11  An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
Pro 17:12  Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.
Pro 17:13  If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.
Pro 17:14  The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
Pro 17:15  He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
Pro 17:16  Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?
Pro 17:17  A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Pro 17:18  One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
Pro 17:19  Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.
Pro 17:20  A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.
Pro 17:21  He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
Pro 17:22  A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Pro 17:23  The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Pro 17:24  The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
Pro 17:25  A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
Pro 17:26  To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
Pro 17:27  Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Pro 17:28  Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. 

Joh 15:1  "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
Joh 15:2  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Joh 15:3  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Joh 15:5  I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Joh 15:6  If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Joh 15:7  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Joh 15:8  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
Joh 15:9  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
Joh 15:10  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Joh 15:12  "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14  You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Joh 15:15  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Joh 15:16  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Joh 15:17  These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Joh 15:18  "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Joh 15:19  If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Joh 15:20  Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
Joh 15:21  But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
Joh 15:22  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Joh 15:23  Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
Joh 15:24  If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
Joh 15:25  But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
Joh 15:26  "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Joh 15:27  And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. 

Evening Meditations 5-5-2011

ESV

Psa 82:1  A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
Psa 82:2  "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Psa 82:3  Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Psa 82:4  Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Psa 82:5  They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psa 82:6  I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
Psa 82:7  nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince."
Psa 82:8  Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations! 

Pro 18:1  Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
Pro 18:2  A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Pro 18:3  When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.
Pro 18:4  The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Pro 18:5  It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
Pro 18:6  A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
Pro 18:7  A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Pro 18:8  The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Pro 18:9  Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Pro 18:10  The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Pro 18:11  A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.
Pro 18:12  Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Pro 18:13  If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
Pro 18:14  A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
Pro 18:15  An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Pro 18:16  A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.
Pro 18:17  The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.
Pro 18:18  The lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders.
Pro 18:19  A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
Pro 18:20  From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.
Pro 18:21  Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Pro 18:22  He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Pro 18:23  The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.
Pro 18:24  A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.  

Son 5:1  I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!
Son 5:2  I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."
Son 5:3  I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them?
Son 5:4  My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.
Son 5:5  I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
Son 5:6  I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
Son 5:7  The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls.
Son 5:8  I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
Son 5:9  What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?
Son 5:10  My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
Son 5:11  His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.
Son 5:12  His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.
Son 5:13  His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.
Son 5:14  His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires.
Son 5:15  His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.
Son 5:16  His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.  

Zec 2:1  And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!
Zec 2:2  Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length."
Zec 2:3  And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him
Zec 2:4  and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.
Zec 2:5  And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.'"
Zec 2:6  Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the LORD.
Zec 2:7  Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
Zec 2:8  For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Zec 2:9  "Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
Zec 2:10  Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD.
Zec 2:11  And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Zec 2:12  And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem."
Zec 2:13  Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.  

Gal 5:1  For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Gal 5:2  Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Gal 5:3  I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
Gal 5:4  You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Gal 5:5  For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Gal 5:6  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Gal 5:7  You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Gal 5:8  This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
Gal 5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Gal 5:10  I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
Gal 5:11  But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
Gal 5:12  I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
Gal 5:13  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Gal 5:14  For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Gal 5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Gal 5:16  But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Gal 5:17  For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Gal 5:18  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Gal 5:20  idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Gal 5:21  envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Gal 5:23  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Gal 5:24  And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Gal 5:25  If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Gal 5:26  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.  

 

Evening Meditations 2009-12-10

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Joh 4:1 When therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Joh 4:2 (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),

Joh 4:3 he left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

Joh 4:4 And he must needs pass through Samaria.

Joh 4:5 So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Joh 4:6 and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Joh 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

Joh 4:8 For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

Joh 4:9 The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Joh 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

Joh 4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

Joh 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

Joh 4:14 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

Joh 4:15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.

Joh 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Joh 4:17 The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:

Joh 4:18 for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.

Joh 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

Joh 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Joh 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.

Joh 4:22 Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is from the Jews.

Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.

Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

Joh 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (which is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.

Joh 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

Joh 4:27 And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

Joh 4:28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men,

Joh 4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ?

Joh 4:30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

Joh 4:31 In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

Joh 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.

Joh 4:33 The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?

Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Joh 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.

Joh 4:36 He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Joh 4:37 For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

Joh 4:38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour.

Joh 4:39 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did.

Joh 4:40 So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days.

Joh 4:41 And many more believed because of his word;

Joh 4:42 and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

Joh 4:43 And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee.

Joh 4:44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

Joh 4:45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

Joh 4:46 He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Joh 4:47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

Joh 4:48 Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.

Joh 4:49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

Joh 4:50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way.

Joh 4:51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived.

Joh 4:52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

Joh 4:53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.

Joh 4:54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.

Joh 5:1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Joh 5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.

Joh 5:3 In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered.

Joh 5:4

Joh 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.

Joh 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?

Joh 5:7 The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

Joh 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.

Joh 5:9 And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the sabbath on that day.

Joh 5:10 So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

Joh 5:11 But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

Joh 5:12 They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

Joh 5:13 But he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in the place.

Joh 5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.

Joh 5:15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.

Joh 5:16 And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

Joh 5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

Joh 5:18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Joh 5:19 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.

Joh 5:20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that ye may marvel.

Joh 5:21 For as the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son also quickeneth whom he will.

Joh 5:22 For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son;

Joh 5:23 that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which sent him.

Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.

Joh 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

Joh 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself:

Joh 5:27 and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.

Joh 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice,

Joh 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done ill, unto the resurrection of judgment.

Joh 5:30 I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Joh 5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

Joh 5:32 It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

Joh 5:33 Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth.

Joh 5:34 But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved.

Joh 5:35 He was the lamp that burneth and shineth: and ye were willing to rejoice for a season in his light.

Joh 5:36 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

Joh 5:37 And the Father which sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

Joh 5:38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

Joh 5:39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

Joh 5:40 and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.

Joh 5:41 I receive not glory from men.

Joh 5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.

Joh 5:43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

Joh 5:44 How can ye believe, which receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?

Joh 5:45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.

Joh 5:46 For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.

Joh 5:47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

Joh 6:1 After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

Joh 6:2 And a great multitude followed him, because they beheld the signs which he did on them that were sick.

Joh 6:3 And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.

Joh 6:4 Now the passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

Joh 6:5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, andseeing that a great multitude cometh unto him, saith unto Philip, Whence are we to buy bread, that these may eat?

Joh 6:6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Joh 6:7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.

Joh 6:8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, saith unto him,

Joh 6:9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two fishes: but what are these among so many?

Joh 6:10 Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

Joh 6:11 Jesus therefore took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down; likewise also of the fishes as much as they would.

Joh 6:12 And when they were filled, he saith unto his disciples, Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost.

Joh 6:13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained over unto them that had eaten.

Joh 6:14 When therefore the people saw the sign which he did, they said, This is of a truth the prophet that cometh into the world.

Joh 6:15 Jesus therefore perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain himself alone.

Joh 6:16 And when evening came, his disciples went down unto the sea;

Joh 6:17 and they entered into a boat, and were going over the sea unto Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

Joh 6:18 And the sea was rising by reason of a great wind that blew.

Joh 6:19 When therefore they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the boat: and they were afraid.

Joh 6:20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.

Joh 6:21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat: and straightway the boat was at the land whither they were going.

Joh 6:22 On the morrow the multitude which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save one, and that Jesus entered not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples went away alone

Joh 6:23 (howbeit there came boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks):

Joh 6:24 when the multitude therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

Joh 6:25 And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

Joh 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Joh 6:27 Work not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

Joh 6:28 They said therefore unto him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God?

Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

Joh 6:30 They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou?

Joh 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

Joh 6:32 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven.

Joh 6:33 For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

Joh 6:34 They said therefore unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

Joh 6:35 Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Joh 6:36 But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe not.

Joh 6:37 All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

Joh 6:38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Joh 6:39 And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

Joh 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 6:41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven.

Joh 6:42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how doth he now say, I am come down out of heaven?

Joh 6:43 Jesus answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.

Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.

Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard from the Father, and hath learned, cometh unto me.

Joh 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is from God, he hath seen the Father.

Joh 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life.

Joh 6:48 I am the bread of life.

Joh 6:49 Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Joh 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

Joh 6:52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Joh 6:53 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.

Joh 6:54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

Joh 6:56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.

Joh 6:57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.

Joh 6:58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers did eat, and died: he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

Joh 6:59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

Joh 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

Joh 6:61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said unto them, Doth this cause you to stumble?

Joh 6:62 What then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

Joh 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him.

Joh 6:65 And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.

Joh 6:66 Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Joh 6:67 Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go away?

Joh 6:68 Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

Joh 6:69 And we have believed and know that thou art the Holy One of God.

Joh 6:70 Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?

Joh 6:71 Now he spake of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.