Exodus 23

• 1. "Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness.
• 2. "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,
• 3. and do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
• 4. "If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to take it back to him.
• 5. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help him with it.
• 6. "Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
• 7. Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
• 8. "Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
• 9. "Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt.
• 10. "For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,
• 11. but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
• 12. "Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed.
• 13. "Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
• 14. "Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
• 15. "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
• 16. "Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. "Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
• 17. "Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.
• 18. "Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast. "The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
• 19. "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
• 20. "See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
• 21. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.
• 22. If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.
• 23. My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
• 24. Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.
• 25. Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,
• 26. and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
• 27. "I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.
• 28. I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
• 29. But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.
• 30. Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.
• 31. "I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River. I will hand over to you the people who live in the land and you will drive them out before you.
• 32. Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
• 33. Do not let them live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you."

John 3

• 1. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.
• 2. He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."
• 3. In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. "
• 4. "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"
• 5. Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
• 6. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
• 7. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'
• 8. The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
• 9. "How can this be?" Nicodemus asked.
• 10. "You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things?
• 11. I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.
• 12. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
• 13. No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven--the Son of Man.
• 14. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
• 15. that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
• 16. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
• 17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
• 18. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
• 19. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
• 20. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
• 21. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
• 22. After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.
• 23. Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized.
• 24. (This was before John was put in prison.)
• 25. An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing.
• 26. They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan--the one you testified about--well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
• 27. To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
• 28. You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ but am sent ahead of him.'
• 29. The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
• 30. He must become greater; I must become less.
• 31. "The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.
• 32. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.
• 33. The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful.
• 34. For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
• 35. The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.
• 36. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."

Job 42

• 1. Then Job replied to the LORD:
• 2. "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
• 3. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
• 4. "You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.'
• 5. My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
• 6. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
• 7. After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
• 8. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."
• 9. So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
• 10. After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.
• 11. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
• 12. The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
• 13. And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
• 14. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
• 15. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
• 16. After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
• 17. And so he died, old and full of years.

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