1 Chronicles 17

• 1. After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am, living in a palace of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent."
• 2. Nathan replied to David, "Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you."
• 3. That night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
• 4. "Go and tell my servant David, 'This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.
• 5. I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another.
• 6. Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders whom I commanded to shepherd my people, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
• 7. "Now then, tell my servant David, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I took you from the pasture and from following the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.
• 8. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men of the earth.
• 9. And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning
• 10. and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies. "'I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you:
• 11. When your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
• 12. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.
• 13. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor.
• 14. I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.'"
• 15. Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.
• 16. Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said: "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?
• 17. And as if this were not enough in your sight, O God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men, O LORD God.
• 18. "What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant,
• 19. O LORD. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.
• 20. "There is no one like you, O LORD, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
• 21. And who is like your people Israel-the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?
• 22. You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, O LORD, have become their God.
• 23. "And now, LORD, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised,
• 24. so that it will be established and that your name will be great forever. Then men will say, 'The LORD Almighty, the God over Israel, is Israel's God!' And the house of your servant David will be established before you.
• 25. "You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you.
• 26. O LORD, you are God! You have promised these good things to your servant.
• 27. Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever."

James 4

• 1. What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
• 2. You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
• 3. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
• 4. You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
• 5. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
• 6. But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
• 7. Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• 8. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• 9. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
• 10. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
• 11. Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
• 12. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you--who are you to judge your neighbor?
• 13. Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."
• 14. Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• 15. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."
• 16. As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
• 17. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

Jonah 1

• 1. The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai:
• 2. "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me."
• 3. But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.
• 4. Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.
• 5. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
• 6. The captain went to him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish."
• 7. Then the sailors said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity." They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
• 8. So they asked him, "Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?"
• 9. He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."
• 10. This terrified them and they asked, "What have you done?" (They knew he was running away from the LORD, because he had already told them so.)
• 11. The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, "What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?"
• 12. "Pick me up and throw me into the sea," he replied, "and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you."
• 13. Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.
• 14. Then they cried to the LORD, "O LORD, please do not let us die for taking this man's life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, O LORD, have done as you pleased."
• 15. Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.
• 16. At this the men greatly feared the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him.
• 17. But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.

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