Job 1

Prologue

Job 2

Jobs Second Test

And Satan answered the LORD, "I have been going back and forth across the earth, watching everything that's going on."

3Then the LORD asked Satan, "Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth--a man of complete integrity. He fears God and will have nothing to do with evil . And he has maintained his integrity, even though you persuaded me to harm him without cause."

4Satan replied to the LORD, "Skin for skin--he blesses you only because you bless him. A man will give up everything he has to save his life. 5But take away his health , and he will surely curse you to your face!"

6"All right, do with him as you please," the LORD said to Satan. "But spare his life." 7So Satan left the LORD's presence, and he struck Job with a terrible case of boils from head to foot.

8Then Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes. 9His wife said to him, "Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die."

10But Job replied, "You talk like a godless woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?" So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.

Psalm 26

A psalm of David.

    2
    Put me on trial, LORD, and cross-examine me.
       Test my motives and affections.

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    For I am constantly aware of your unfailing love,
       and I have lived according to your truth.

    4
    I do not spend time with liars
       or go along with hypocrites.

    5
    I hate the gatherings of those who do evil,
       and I refuse to join in with the wicked.

    6
    I wash my hands to declare my innocence .
       I come to your altar, O LORD,

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    singing a song of thanksgiving
       and telling of all your miracles.

    8
    I love your sanctuary, LORD,
       the place where your glory shines.

    9
    Don't let me suffer the fate of sinners.
       Don't condemn me along with murderers.

    10
    Their hands are dirty with wicked schemes,
       and they constantly take bribes.

    11
    But I am not like that; I do what is right.
       So in your mercy, save me.

    12
    I have taken a stand,
       and I will publicly praise the LORD.

2Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: "Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?"

3"What did Moses say about divorce?" Jesus asked them.

4"Well, he permitted it," they replied. "He said a man merely has to write his wife an official letter of divorce and send her away."

5But Jesus responded, "He wrote those instructions only as a concession to your hard-hearted wickedness. 6But God's plan was seen from the beginning of creation , for `He made them male and female. '7`This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, 8and the two are united into one. Since they are no longer two but one, 9let no one separate them, for God has joined them together."

10Later, when he was alone with his disciples in the house, they brought up the subject again. 11He told them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery against her. 12And if a woman divorces her husband and remarries, she commits adultery."

Jesus Blesses the Children

Hebrews 1

Jesus Christ Is Gods Son

Christ Is Greater Than the Angels

Jesus, the Man

   
    "What is man that you should think of him,
       and the son of man that you should care for him?

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    For a little while you made him lower than the angels,
       and you crowned him with glory and honor.

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    You gave him authority over all things."

Now when it says "all things," it means nothing is left out. But we have not yet seen all of this happen. 9What we do see is Jesus, who "for a little while was made lower than the angels" and now is "crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death for us. Yes, by God's grace , Jesus tasted death for everyone in all the world. 10And it was only right that God--who made everything and for whom everything was made--should bring his many children into glory. Through the suffering of Jesus, God made him a perfect leader, one fit to bring them into their salvation .

11So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters. 12For he said to God,

   
"I will declare the wonder of your name to my brothers and sisters.      
I will praise you among all your people."