Thursday after Ash Wednesday
We hope that today is a good day.
Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
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Deuteronomy 30:15-20
15 Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce to you today, that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;
20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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Gospel: Luke 9:22-25
22 saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."23 He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,†TR, NU add "daily" and follow me.
24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
†9:23: TR, NU add "daily"
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* Deuteronomy 1:1、6-18
1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.6 "Yahweh our God†The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "?????????" (Elohim). spoke to us in Horeb, saying, 'You have lived long enough at this mountain.
7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 Behold,‡"Behold", from "??????", means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring§or, seed after them.'"
9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone.
10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
13 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."
14 You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good to do."
15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it."
18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
†1:6: The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "?????????" (Elohim).
‡1:8: "Behold", from "??????", means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
§1:8: or, seed
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