Luke 7:11-17
[11]
Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a
great crowd went with him. [12] As he drew near to the gate of the town,
behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his
mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was
with her. [13] And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and
said to her, “Do not weep.” [14] Then he came up and touched the bier,
and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you,
arise.” [15] And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave
him to his mother. [16] Fear seized them all, and they glorified God,
saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his
people!” [17] And this report about him spread through the whole of
Judea and all the surrounding country.
Colossians 1:1-14
[1] Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
[2] To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
[3]
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray
for you, [4] since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the
love that you have for all the saints, [5] because of the hope laid up
for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the
truth, the gospel, [6] which has come to you, as indeed in the whole
world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you,
since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, [7]
just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a
faithful minister of Christ on your behalf [8] and has made known to us
your love in the Spirit.
[9]
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you,
asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all
spiritual wisdom and understanding, [10] so as to walk in a manner
worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good
work and increasing in the knowledge of God; [11] being strengthened
with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and
patience with joy; [12] giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified
you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. [13] He has
delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the
kingdom of his beloved Son, [14] in whom we have redemption, the
forgiveness of sins.
Psalm 123
A Song of Ascents.
[1] To you I lift up my eyes,
O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
[2] Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maidservant
to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the LORD our God,
till he has mercy upon us.
[3] Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us,
for we have had more than enough of contempt.
[4] Our soul has had more than enough
of the scorn of those who are at ease,
of the contempt of the proud.
Psalm 124
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
[1] If it had not been the LORD who was on our side—
let Israel now say—
[2] if it had not been the LORD who was on our side
when people rose up against us,
[3] then they would have swallowed us up alive,
when their anger was kindled against us;
[4] then the flood would have swept us away,
the torrent would have gone over us;
[5] then over us would have gone
the raging waters.
[6] Blessed be the LORD,
who has not given us
as prey to their teeth!
[7] We have escaped like a bird
from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
and we have escaped!
[8] Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
1 Chronicles 1
[1] Adam, Seth, Enosh; [2] Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; [3] Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; [4] Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
[5]
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and
Tiras. [6] The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. [7] The
sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
[8]
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. [9] The sons of Cush:
Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and
Dedan. [10] Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a
mighty man.
[11] Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, [12] Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.
[13]
Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth, [14] and the Jebusites,
the Amorites, the Girgashites, [15] the Hivites, the Arkites, the
Sinites, [16] the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
[17]
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And the sons
of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. [18] Arpachshad fathered Shelah,
and Shelah fathered Eber. [19] To Eber were born two sons: the name of
the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his
brother’s name was Joktan. [20] Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph,
Hazarmaveth, Jerah, [21] Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, [22] Obal, Abimael,
Sheba, [23] Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of
Joktan.
[24] Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah; [25] Eber, Peleg, Reu; [26] Serug, Nahor, Terah; [27] Abram, that is, Abraham.
[28]
The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. [29] These are their
genealogies: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Adbeel,
Mibsam, [30] Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, [31] Jetur, Naphish, and
Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. [32] The sons of Keturah,
Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak,
and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. [33] The sons of
Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the
descendants of Keturah.
[34]
Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. [35] The
sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. [36] The sons of
Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, Kenaz, and of Timna, Amalek. [37]
The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
[38]
The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and
Dishan. [39] The sons of Lotan: Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was
Timna. [40] The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. [41] The son of Anah: Dishon. The
sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. [42] The sons of
Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
[43]
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king
reigned over the people of Israel: Bela the son of Beor, the name of his
city being Dinhabah. [44] Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of
Bozrah reigned in his place. [45] Jobab died, and Husham of the land of
the Temanites reigned in his place. [46] Husham died, and Hadad the son
of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his
place, the name of his city being Avith. [47] Hadad died, and Samlah of
Masrekah reigned in his place. [48] Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth
on the Euphrates reigned in his place. [49] Shaul died, and Baal-hanan,
the son of Achbor, reigned in his place. [50] Baal-hanan died, and Hadad
reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pai; and his wife’s
name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
[51] And Hadad died.
The
chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, [52] Oholibamah,
Elah, Pinon, [53] Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, [54] Magdiel, and Iram; these
are the chiefs of Edom.
1 Chronicles 2
[1]
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar,
Zebulun, [2] Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. [3] The
sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite
bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the
LORD, and he put him to death. [4] His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore
him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
[5]
The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. [6] The sons of Zerah: Zimri,
Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. [7] The son of Carmi:
Achan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the
devoted thing; [8] and Ethan’s son was Azariah.
[9]
The sons of Hezron that were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
[10] Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of
the sons of Judah. [11] Nahshon fathered Salmon, Salmon fathered Boaz,
[12] Boaz fathered Obed, Obed fathered Jesse. [13] Jesse fathered Eliab
his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, [14] Nethanel the
fourth, Raddai the fifth, [15] Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. [16]
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah:
Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. [17] Abigail bore Amasa, and the
father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
[18]
Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by his wife Azubah, and by
Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. [19] When
Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. [20] Hur fathered
Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.
[21]
Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of
Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him
Segub. [22] And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the
land of Gilead. [23] But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair,
Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of
Machir, the father of Gilead. [24] After the death of Hezron, Caleb went
in to Ephrathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him
Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
[25]
The sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron: Ram, his firstborn,
Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. [26] Jerahmeel also had another wife,
whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. [27] The sons of Ram,
the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. [28] The sons of
Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. [29] The
name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
[30] The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died childless. [31]
The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan:
Ahlai. [32] The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother: Jether and Jonathan;
and Jether died childless. [33] The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza.
These were the descendants of Jerahmeel. [34] Now Sheshan had no sons,
only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha.
[35] So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave, and
she bore him Attai. [36] Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered
Zabad. [37] Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed. [38] Obed
fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. [39] Azariah fathered Helez,
and Helez fathered Eleasah. [40] Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai
fathered Shallum. [41] Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered
Elishama.
[42]
The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mareshah his firstborn, who
fathered Ziph. The son of Mareshah: Hebron. [43] The sons of Hebron:
Korah, Tappuah, Rekem and Shema. [44] Shema fathered Raham, the father
of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai. [45] The son of Shammai: Maon;
and Maon fathered Beth-zur. [46] Ephah also, Caleb’s concubine, bore
Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.
[47]
The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
[48] Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. [49] She also
bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and
the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. [50] These
were the descendants of Caleb.
The
sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of
Kiriath-jearim, [51] Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the
father of Beth-gader. [52] Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had other
sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. [53] And the clans of
Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the
Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. [54] The
sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half
of the Manahathites, the Zorites. [55] The clans also of the scribes who
lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites.
These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of
Rechab.
