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ISAIAH 1

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1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Wickedness of Judah

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;

for the Lord has spoken:

“Children have I reared and brought up,

but they have rebelled against me. 3

The ox knows its owner,

and the donkey its master’s crib,

but Israel does not know,

my people do not understand.”
4

Ah, sinful nation,

a people laden with iniquity,

offspring of evildoers,

children who deal corruptly!

They have forsaken the Lord,

they have despised the Holy One of Israel,

they are utterly estranged.
5

Why will you still be struck down?

Why will you continue to rebel?

The whole head is sick,

and the whole heart faint. 6

From the sole of the foot even to the head,

there is no soundness in it,

but bruises and sores

and raw wounds;

they are not pressed out or bound up

or softened with oil.
7

Your country lies desolate;

your cities are burned with fire;

in your very presence

foreigners devour your land;

it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners. 8

And the daughter of Zion is left

like a booth in a vineyard,

like a lodge in a cucumber field,

like a besieged city.
9

If the Lord of hosts

had not left us a few survivors,

we should have been like Sodom,

and become like Gomorrah.
10

Hear the word of the Lord,

you rulers of Sodom!

Give ear to the teaching of our God,

you people of Gomorrah! 11

“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?

says the Lord;

I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams

and the fat of well-fed beasts;

I do not delight in the blood of bulls,

or of lambs, or of goats.
12

“When you come to appear before me,

who has required of you

this trampling of my courts? 13

Bring no more vain offerings;

incense is an abomination to me.

New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—

I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. 14

Your new moons and your appointed feasts

my soul hates;

they have become a burden to me;

I am weary of bearing them. 15

When you spread out your hands,

I will hide my eyes from you;

even though you make many prayers,

I will not listen;

your hands are full of blood. 16

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;

remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;

cease to do evil, 17

learn to do good;

seek justice,

correct oppression;

bring justice to the fatherless,

plead the widow’s cause.
18

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:

though your sins are like scarlet,

they shall be as white as snow;

though they are red like crimson,

they shall become like wool. 19

If you are willing and obedient,

you shall eat the good of the land; 20

but if you refuse and rebel,

you shall be eaten by the sword;

for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” The Unfaithful City

How the faithful city

has become a whore,

she who was full of justice!

Righteousness lodged in her,

but now murderers. 22

Your silver has become dross,

your best wine mixed with water. 23

Your princes are rebels

and companions of thieves.

Everyone loves a bribe

and runs after gifts.

They do not bring justice to the fatherless,

and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
24

Therefore the Lord declares,

the Lord of hosts,

the Mighty One of Israel:

“Ah, I will get relief from my enemies

and avenge myself on my foes. 25

I will turn my hand against you

and will smelt away your dross as with lye

and remove all your alloy. 26

And I will restore your judges as at the first,

and your counselors as at the beginning.

Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness,

the faithful city.”
27

Zion shall be redeemed by justice,

and those in her who repent, by righteousness. 28

But rebels and sinners shall be broken together,

and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed. 29

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks

that you desired;

and you shall blush for the gardens

that you have chosen. 30

For you shall be like an oak

whose leaf withers,

and like a garden without water. 31

And the strong shall become tinder,

and his work a spark,

and both of them shall burn together,

with none to quench them.

1 CORINTHIANS 3

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Divisions in the Church

  3:1 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?
    5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
    10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
    16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
    18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20 and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21 So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.