All deeds are right in the sight of the doer, but the Lord weighs the heart.To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. From Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13, NRSV Today’s passage from the Book of Proverbs leads us to question the motivation for the things we do. Solomon reminds us that God looks deeper…
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Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.Do not say to your neighbour, ‘Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it’—when you have it with you.Do not plan harm against your neighbour who lives trustingly beside you.Do not quarrel with anyone without…
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Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,saying, ‘When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain;and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale?We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practise deceit with false balances,buying the poor for…
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But someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?’ Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some…
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If we have hoped in Christ for this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. From 1 Corinthians 15: 12-20, NRSV Although naturalists are finding evidence that some species of animals recognise and, in…
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Last of all… Christ appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me has not been in vain. From 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11,…
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The Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.’ So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. From Numbers…
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Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. From 1…
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Now in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, to begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and to some extent I believe it. From 1 Corinthians 11:17-26,…
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The Lord said to Moses, ‘I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.’ From Exodus 32:7-11,13-14, NRSV This exchange which took place between God and Moses on Mount…
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