Scriptures for the week of June 29th:
Genesis
22:1-14
1 After
these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!"
And he said, "Here I am." 2 He said, "Take your
son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of
Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the
mountains that I shall show you."
3 So
Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and
took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut
the wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the
place in the distance that God had shown him. 4 On
the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away.
5 Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here
with the donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will
worship, and then we will come back to you." 6 Abraham
took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son
Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the
two of them walked on together. 7 Isaac said to
his father Abraham, "Father!" And he said, "Here I am, my
son." He said, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is
the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8 Abraham said,
"God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my
son." So the two of them walked on together. 9 When
they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built
an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son
Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then
Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his
son.
11 But
the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said,
"Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 12 He
said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him;
for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld
your son, your only son, from me." 13 And
Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its
horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a
burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham
called that place "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to
this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."
Psalm 13
1 How
long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you
hide your face from me? 2 How long must I bear
pain in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all day long? How
long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider
and answer me, O Lord my God! Give light to my eyes, or I will
sleep the sleep of death, 4 and my enemy will
say, "I have prevailed"; my foes will rejoice because I am
shaken. 5 But I trusted in your steadfast love;
my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 6 I
will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with
me.
Romans
6:12-23
12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal
bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13 No
longer present your members to sin as instruments of
wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have
been brought from death to life, and present your members to
God as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin
will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law
but under grace. 15 What then? Should we sin
because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves
to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom
you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of
obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But
thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin,
have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to
which you were entrusted, 18 and that you,
having been set free from sin, have become slaves of
righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms
because of your natural limitations. For just as you once
presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater
and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to
righteousness for sanctification. 20 When you
were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 So what advantage did you then get from the
things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things
is death. 22 But now that you have been freed
from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is
sanctification. The end is eternal life. 23 For
the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew
10:40-42
40 "Whoever
welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the
one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet
in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and
whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous
person will receive the reward of the righteous; 42 and
whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little
ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these
will lose their reward."
