Daily Readings for Friday, 10 January 2014

Daily Readings for Friday, 10 January 2014

Psalm 147: 12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!

    Praise your God, O Zion!

13 For he strengthens the bars of your gates;

    he blesses your children within you.

14 He grants peace[a] within your borders;

    he fills you with the finest of wheat.

15 He sends out his command to the earth;

    his word runs swiftly.

Footnotes:

a. Psalm 147:14 Or prosperity

19 He declares his word to Jacob,

    his statutes and ordinances to Israel.

20 He has not dealt thus with any other nation;

    they do not know his ordinances.

Praise the Lord!

1 John 5: 5 Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Testimony concerning the Son of God

6 This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. 7 There are three that testify:[a] 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three agree. 9 If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. 10 Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God[b] have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Epilogue

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Footnotes:

a. 1 John 5:7 A few other authorities read (with variations) 7 There are three that testify in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 8 And there are three that testify on earth:

b. 1 John 5:10 Other ancient authorities read in the Son

Luke 5: Jesus Cleanses a Leper

12 Once, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man covered with leprosy.[a] When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.” 13 Then Jesus[b] stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do choose. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy[c] left him. 14 And he ordered him to tell no one. “Go,” he said, “and show yourself to the priest, and, as Moses commanded, make an offering for your cleansing, for a testimony to them.” 15 But now more than ever the word about Jesus[d] spread abroad; many crowds would gather to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. 16 But he would withdraw to deserted places and pray.

Footnotes:

a. Luke 5:12 The terms leper and leprosy can refer to several diseases

b. Luke 5:13 Gk he

c. Luke 5:13 The terms leper and leprosy can refer to several diseases

d. Luke 5:15 Gk him

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