Jeremiah 10-12 - Yahweh Alone Is the Living God

Yahweh Alone Is the Living God

Jer 10:6-7 LSB – [6] There is none like You, O Yahweh; You are great, and great is Your name in might. [7] Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? Indeed it is Your due! For among all the wise men of the nations And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You.

Jer 10:10 LSB – [10] But Yahweh is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, And the nations cannot endure His indignation.

Jer 10:12 LSB – [12] [It is] He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.

Jer 10:23-24 LSB – [23] I know, O Yahweh, that a man's way is not in himself, Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps. [24] Discipline me, O Yahweh, but with justice; Not with Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

The Broken Covenant

Jer 11:14 LSB – [14] "But as for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry of lamentation or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their calamity.

Men Seek Jeremiah’s Life

Jer 11:19 LSB – [19] But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; And I did not know that they had devised thoughts against me, [saying], "Let us make the tree with its fruit a ruin, And let us cut him off from the land of the living, That his name be remembered no more."

Jeremiah’s Plea

Jer 12:1 LSB – [1] Righteous are You, O Yahweh, when I would plead [my] case with You; Indeed I would speak matters of justice with You: Why has the way of the wicked succeeded? [Why] are all those who deal in treachery complacent?

Yahweh Answers Jeremiah

Jer 12:5 LSB – [5] "If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, Then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, How will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

Jeremiah 7-9 - Boast that He Understands and Knows Me

Yahweh’s Warning from the Temple Gate

Jer 7:11 LSB – [11] "Has this house, which is called by My name, become a robbers' den in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen [it]," declares Yahweh.

Isa 56:7 LSB – [7] Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them glad in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples."

Mat 21:13 LSB – [13] And He said to them, "It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER'; but you are making it a ROBBERS' DEN."

Jer 7:12 LSB – [12] "But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.

Jdg 21:19 LSB – [19] So they said, "Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south side of Lebonah."

1Sa 1:3 LSB – [3] Now that man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to Yahweh there.

Jer 7:16 LSB – [16] "As for you, do not pray for this people and do not lift up a cry of lamentation or prayer for them and do not intercede with Me, for I am not hearing you.

Jer 7:22-24 LSB –
[22] "For I did not speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
[23] "But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Listen to My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in the entire way which I command you, that it may be well with you.'
[24] "Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.

The Faithlessness of Jerusalem

Jer 8:5 LSB – [5] "Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual faithlessness? They hold fast to deceit; They refuse to return.

Sorrow over Zion

Jer 8:22 ESV – [22] Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Jer 9:23-24 LSB – [23] Thus says Yahweh, "Let not a wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast in his might; let not a rich man boast in his riches, [24] but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Yahweh who shows lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares Yahweh.

Jer 9:25-26 LSB – [25] "Behold, the days are coming," declares Yahweh, "that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised-- [26] Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart."

Jeremiah 4-6 - Mourn the Coming Destroyer

Yahweh Calls Israel to Return to Him

Jer 4:1 LSB – [1] "If you will return, O Israel," declares Yahweh, "[Then] you should return to Me. And if you will put away your detested things from My presence And will not waver

Evil from the North

Jer 4:6 LSB – [6] "Lift up a standard toward Zion! Seek safety, do not stand [still], For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.

Jer 4:10 LSB – [10] Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'You will have peace'; whereas a sword touches the throat."

Jer 4:18 LSB – [18] "Your ways and your deeds Have done these things to you. This is your evil. How bitter! How it has touched your heart!"

Anguish over Judah’s Desolation

Jer 4:27 LSB – [27] For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

Jer 4:31 LSB – [31] For I heard a sound as of a woman in labor pains, The distress as of one giving birth to her first child, The sound of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, [saying], "Ah, woe is me, for my soul faints before murderers."

Jerusalem Refuses to Repent

Jer 5:1 LSB – [1] "Roam to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And see now and know, And seek in her open squares, If you can find a man, If there is one who does justice, who seeks faithfulness, Then I will pardon her.

Psa 53:2-3 LSB – 

[2] God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men 

To see if there is anyone who has insight, 

Anyone who seeks after God. 

[3] Every one of them has turned back; together they have become worthless; 

There is no one who does good, not even one.

Jer 5:12 LSB – [12] They have dealt falsely about Yahweh And said, "Not He; Calamity will not come on us, And we will not see sword or famine.

Jer 5:12 ESV – [12] They have spoken falsely of the LORD and have said, 'He will do nothing; no disaster will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.

A Stubborn and Rebellious People

Jer 5:19 LSB – [19] "It shall come about when they say, 'Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?' then you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

Yahweh Disciplines Israel

Jer 6:3 LSB – [3] "Shepherds and their flocks will come to her; They will pitch [their] tents around her; They will pasture each in his place.

Jer 12:10 LSB – [10] "Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard; They have trampled down My portion; They have made My desired portion A desolate wilderness.

Jer 6:21 LSB – [21] Therefore, thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. And they will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbor and friend will perish."

Rom 9:33 LSB – [33] just as it is written, "BEHOLD, I AM LAYING IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND THE ONE WHO BELIEVES UPON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME."

 

Mourn the Coming Destroyer

Jer 6:27 LSB – [27] "I have made you a tester [of metals and] an assayer among My people, That you may know and test their way."

 

Jeremiah 1-3 - Yahweh Sends Jeremiah the Prophet

Yahweh Sends Jeremiah the Prophet

Jer 1:5 LSB – 

[5] "Before I formed you in the innermost parts I knew you, 

And before you came out from the womb I set you apart; 

I have given you as a prophet to the nations."

Jer 1:7 LSB – 

[7] But Yahweh said to me, 

"Do not say, 'I am a youth,' 

Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, 

And all that I command you, you shall speak.

Jer 1:9 LSB – [9] Then Yahweh sent forth His hand and touched my mouth, and Yahweh said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

The Almond Rod and Boiling Pot

Jer 1:19 LSB – [19] "And they will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you," declares Yahweh.

Judah Transgresses Against Yahweh

Jer 2:13 LSB – [13] "For My people have done two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.

The Polluted Land

Jer 3:1 LSB – 

[1] [God] says, "If a husband divorces his wife 

And she goes from him 

And belongs to another man, 

Will he still return to her? 

Will not that land be completely polluted? 

But you are a harlot [with] many lovers; 

Yet you turn to Me," declares Yahweh.

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

Jer 3:12-13 LSB – 

[12] "Go and call out these words toward the north and say, 

'Return, faithless Israel,' declares Yahweh; 

'I will not look upon you in anger. 

For I am One of lovingkindness,' declares Yahweh; 

'I will not be angry forever. 

[13] 'Only acknowledge your iniquity, 

That you have transgressed against Yahweh your God 

And have scattered your ways [of harlotry] to the strangers under every green tree, 

And you have not listened to My voice,' declares Yahweh.

Jer 3:16 LSB – [16] "It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and fruitful in the land," declares Yahweh, "they will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of Yahweh.' And it will not come upon the heart, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss [it], nor will it be made again.

Jer 3:25 LSB – [25] "Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God."

Psa 51:4 LSB – [4] Against You, You only, I have sinned [And] done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And pure when You judge.

1 Corinthians 13-16 - The Resurrection of Christ

The Excellence of Love

1Co 13:4-7 LSB – 

[4] Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up; 

[5] it does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong [suffered]; 

[6] it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 

[7] it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Prophecy and Tongues

1Co 14:1 LSB – [1] Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy.

1Co 14:3 LSB – [3] But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and encouragement.

1Co 14:24-25 LSB – [24] But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all; [25] the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that SURELY GOD IS AMONG YOU.

Orderly Worship

1Co 14:26 LSB – [26] What is [the outcome] then, brothers? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has a translation. Let all things be done for edification.

1Co 14:31 LSB – [31] For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted.

1Co 14:34 LSB – [34] The women are to keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

1Co 11:5 LSB – [5] But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying, shames her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

1Co 14:39-40 LSB – [39] Therefore, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues. [40] But all things must be done properly and in an orderly manner.

The Resurrection of Christ

1Co 15:1-2 LSB – 

[1] Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed as good news to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 

[2] by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you as good news, unless you believed for nothing.

1Co 15:3-5 LSB – [3] For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, [4] and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, [5] and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

The Resurrection of the Dead

1Co 15:17 LSB – [17] And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

1Co 15:22-23 LSB – [22] For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. [23] But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming.

The Resurrection Body

1Co 15:45 LSB – [45] So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

1Co 15:51-52 LSB – [51] Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, [52] in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

The Collection of Gifts

Final Instructions and Greetings

1Co 16:13 LSB – [13] Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1Co 16:22 LSB – [22] If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha.

1 Corinthians 10-12

Temptation and God’s Faithfulness

1Co 10:2 LSB – [2] and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

Rom 6:3 LSB – [3] Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Gal 3:27 LSB – [27] For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

1Co 10:4 LSB – [4] and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Deu 32:4 LSB – [4] "The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.

1Co 10:6 LSB – [6] Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

1Co 10:8 LSB – [8] Nor let us act in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Num 25:9 ESV – [9] Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

1Co 10:11 LSB – [11] Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have arrived.

Rom 13:11 LSB – [11] And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.

Heb 9:26 LSB – [26] Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

1Co 10:16-17 LSB –
[16] Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
[17] Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

1Co 10:23-24 LSB –
[23] All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things build up.
[24] Let no one seek his own [good], but that of the other person.

1Co 10:31-33 LSB –
[31] Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
[32] Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;
[33] just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the [profit] of the many, so that they may be saved.

1Co 11:1 LSB – [1] Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

Head Coverings

1Co 11:3 LSB – [3] But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

The Lord’s Supper

1Co 11:23-26 LSB – 

[23] For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was being betrayed took bread, 

[24] and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me." 

[25] In the same way [He took] the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink [it], in remembrance of Me." 

[26] For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until He comes.

Concerning Spiritual Gifts

1Co 12:4-6 LSB – 

[4] Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 

[5] And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. 

[6] And there are varieties of workings, but the same God who works everything in everyone.

1Co 12:11 LSB – [11] But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

1Co 12:13 LSB – [13] For also by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

1Co 12:27-28 LSB – [27] Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it. [28] And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, [various] kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 7-9 - I do all things for the sake of the gospel

Concerning Marriage and Singleness

1Co 7:5 LSB – [5] Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1Co 7:16 LSB – [16] For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

1Co 7:20 LSB – [20] Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called.

1Co 7:29, 31 LSB – 

[29] But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none; ... 

[31] and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it. For the form of this world is passing away.

1Co 7:39-40 LSB – [39] A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband has fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. [40] But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

Take Care with Your Liberty

1Co 8:1-3 LSB – [1] Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. [2] If anyone thinks that he has known anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know; [3] but if anyone loves God, he has been known by Him.

1Co 8:11-13 LSB – [11] For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. [12] And in that way, by sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. [13] Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again--ever, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

Paul Gives Up His Rights

1Co 9:14 LSB – [14] So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

1Co 9:16 LSB – [16] For if I proclaim the gospel, I have nothing to boast, for I am under compulsion. For woe is me if I do not proclaim the gospel.

1Co 9:20-23 LSB – 

[20] And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews. To those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law. [21] To those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. 

[22] To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. 

[23] So I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

1Co 9:27 LSB – [27] but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

1 Corinthians 4-6 - Washed, Santified, and Justified

Servants of Christ

1Co 4:1 LSB – [1] Let a man consider us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1Co 4:3-4 LSB – [3] But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by [any] human court. In fact, I do not even examine myself. [4] For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted. But the one who examines me is the Lord.

1Co 4:5 LSB – [5] Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, [but wait] until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and make manifest the motives of hearts. And then each one's praise will come to him from God.

1Co 4:11-13 LSB – 

[11] To this present hour we hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and roughly treated, and homeless; [12] and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; 

[13] when we are slandered, we try to plead; we have become as the scum of the world, the grime of all things, [even] until now.

1Co 4:15 LSB – [15] For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet [you would] not [have] many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

Sexual Immorality in the Church

1Co 5:11 LSB – [11] But now I am writing to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one.

Lawsuits Among Believers

1Co 6:9-10 LSB – [9] Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither [the] sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, [10] nor thieves, nor [the] greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

1Co 6:11 LSB – [11] And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Flee Sexual Immorality

1Co 6:18 LSB – [18] Flee sexual immorality. Every [other] sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral man sins against his own body.

1Co 6:19-20 LSB – [19] Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? [20] For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.