Psalms 105; Psalms 106; 1 Corinthians 3

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Psalms 105

1 Give thanks to the Lord and pray to him. Tell the nations what he has done.

2 Sing to him; sing praises to him. Tell about all his miracles.

3 Be glad that you are his; let those who seek the Lord be happy.

4 Depend on the Lord and his strength; always go to him for help.

5 Remember the miracles he has done; remember his wonders and his decisions.

6 You are descendants of his servant Abraham, the children of Jacob, his chosen people.

7 He is the Lord our God. His laws are for all the world.

8 He will keep his agreement forever; he will keep his promises always.

9 He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and the promise he made to Isaac.

10 He made it a law for the people of Jacob; he made it an agreement with Israel to last forever.

11 The Lord said, "I will give you the land of Canaan, and it will belong to you."

12 Then God's people were few in number. They were strangers in the land.

13 They went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another.

14 But the Lord did not let anyone hurt them; he warned kings not to harm them.

15 He said, "Don't touch my chosen people, and don't harm my prophets."

16 God ordered a time of hunger in the land, and he destroyed all the food.

17 Then he sent a man ahead of them -- Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

18 They put chains around his feet and an iron ring around his neck.

19 Then the time he had spoken of came, and the Lord's words proved that Joseph was right.

20 The king of Egypt sent for Joseph and freed him; the ruler of the people set him free.

21 He made him the master of his house; Joseph was in charge of his riches.

22 He could order the princes as he wished. He taught the older men to be wise.

23 Then his father Israel came to Egypt; Jacobn lived in Egypt.

24 The Lord made his people grow in number, and he made them stronger than their enemies.

25 He caused the Egyptians to hate his people and to make plans against his servants.

26 Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

27 They did many signs among the Egyptians and worked wonders in Egypt.

28 The Lord sent darkness and made the land dark, but the Egyptians turned against what he said.

29 So he changed their water into blood and made their fish die.

30 Then their country was filled with frogs, even in the bedrooms of their rulers.

31 The Lord spoke and flies came, and gnats were everywhere in the country.

32 He made hail fall like rain and sent lightning through their land.

33 He struck down their grapevines and fig trees, and he destroyed every tree in the country.

34 He spoke and grasshoppers came; the locusts were too many to count.

35 They ate all the plants in the land and everything the earth produced.

36 The Lord also killed all the firstborn sons in the land, the oldest son of each family.

37 Then he brought his people out, and they carried with them silver and gold. Not one of his people stumbled.

38 The Egyptians were glad when they left, because the Egyptians were afraid of them.

39 The Lord covered them with a cloud and lit up the night with fire.

40 When they asked, he brought them quail and filled them with bread from heaven.

41 God split the rock, and water flowed out; it ran like a river through the desert.

42 He remembered his holy promise to his servant Abraham.

43 So God brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

44 He gave them lands of other nations, so they received what others had worked for.

45 This was so they would keep his orders and obey his teachings.

Psalms 106

1 Praise the Lord! Thank the Lord because he is good. His love continues forever.

2 No one can tell all the mighty things the Lord has done; no one can speak all his praise.

3 Happy are those who do right, who do what is fair at all times.

4 Lord, remember me when you are kind to your people; help me when you save them.

5 Let me see the good things you do for your chosen people. Let me be happy along with your happy nation; let me join your own people in praising you.

6 We have sinned just as our ancestors did. We have done wrong; we have done evil.

7 Our ancestors in Egypt did not learn from your miracles. They did not remember all your kindnesses, so they turned against you at the Red Sea.

8 But the Lord saved them for his own sake, to show his great power.

9 He commanded the Red Sea, and it dried up. He led them through the deep sea as if it were a desert.

10 He saved them from those who hated them. He saved them from their enemies,

11 and the water covered their foes. Not one of them escaped.

12 Then the people believed what the Lord said, and they sang praises to him.

13 But they quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his advice.

14 They became greedy for food in the desert, and they tested God there.

15 So he gave them what they wanted, but he also sent a terrible disease among them.

16 The people in the camp were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the holy priest of the Lord.

17 Then the ground opened up and swallowed Dathan and closed over Abiram's group.

18 A fire burned among their followers, and flames burned up the wicked.

19 The people made a gold calf at Mount Sinai and worshiped a metal statue.

20 They exchanged their glorious God for a statue of a bull that eats grass.

21 They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

22 who had done miracles in Egyptn and amazing things by the Red Sea.

23 So God said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood before him and stopped God's anger from destroying them.

24 Then they refused to go into the beautiful land of Canaan; they did not believe what God promised.

25 They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the Lord.

26 So he swore to them that they would die in the desert.

27 He said their children would be killed by other nations and that they would be scattered among other countries.

28 They joined in worshiping Baal at Peor and ate meat that had been sacrificed to lifeless statues.

29 They made the Lord angry by what they did, so many people became sick with a terrible disease.

30 But Phinehas prayed to the Lord, and the disease stopped.

31 Phinehas did what was right, and it will be remembered from now on.

32 The people also made the Lord angry at Meribah, and Moses was in trouble because of them.

33 The people turned against the Spirit of God, so Moses spoke without stopping to think.

34 The people did not destroy the other nations as the Lord had told them to do.

35 Instead, they mixed with the other nations and learned their customs.

36 They worshiped other nations' idols and were trapped by them.

37 They even killed their sons and daughters as sacrifices to demons.

38 They killed innocent people, their own sons and daughters, as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan. So the land was made unholy by their blood.

39 The people became unholy by their sins; they were unfaithful to God in what they did.

40 So the Lord became angry with his people and hated his own children.

41 He handed them over to other nations and let their enemies rule over them.

42 Their enemies were cruel to them and kept them under their power.

43 The Lord saved his people many times, but they continued to turn against him. So they became even more wicked.

44 But God saw their misery when he heard their cry.

45 He remembered his agreement with them, and he felt sorry for them because of his great love.

46 He caused them to be pitied by those who held them captive.

47 Lord our God, save us and bring us back from other nations. Then we will thank you and will gladly praise you.

48 Praise the Lord, the God of Israel. He always was and always will be. Let all the people say, "Amen!"

1 Corinthians 3

1 Brothers and sisters, in the past I could not talk to you as I talk to spir- itual people. I had to talk to you as I would to people without the Spirit -- babies in Christ.

2 The teaching I gave you was like milk, not solid food, because you were not able to take solid food. And even now you are not ready.

3 You are still not spiritual, because there is jealousy and quarreling among you, and this shows that you are not spiritual. You are acting like people of the world.

4 One of you says, "I belong to Paul," and another says, "I belong to Apollos." When you say things like this, you are acting like people of the world.

5 Is Apollos important? No! Is Paul important? No! We are only servants of God who helped you believe. Each one of us did the work God gave us to do.

6 I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it. But God is the One who made it grow.

7 So the one who plants is not important, and the one who waters is not important. Only God, who makes things grow, is important.

8 The one who plants and the one who waters have the same purpose, and each will be rewarded for his own work.

9 We are God's workers, working together; you are like God's farm, God's house.

10 Using the gift God gave me, I laid the foundation of that house like an expert builder. Others are building on that foundation, but all peo- ple should be careful how they build on it.

11 The foundation that has already been laid is Jesus Christ, and no one can lay down any other foundation.

12 But if people build on that foundation, using gold, silver, jewels, wood, grass, or straw,

13 their work will be clearly seen, because the Day of Judgmentn will make it visible. That Day will appear with fire, and the fire will test everyone's work to show what sort of work it was.

14 If the building that has been put on the foundation still stands, the builder will get a reward.

15 But if the building is burned up, the builder will suffer loss. The builder will be saved, but it will be as one who escaped from a fire.

16 Don't you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?

17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person, because God's temple is holy and you are that temple.

18 Do not fool yourselves. If you think you are wise in this world, you should become a fool so that you can become truly wise,

19 because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. It is written in the Scriptures, "He catches those who are wise in their own clever traps."

20 It is also written in the Scriptures, "The Lord knows what wise people think. He knows their thoughts are just a puff of wind."

21 So you should not brag about human leaders. All things belong to you:

22 Paul, Apollos, and Peter; the world, life, death, the present, and the future -- all these belong to you.

23 And you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Psalms 105; Psalms 106; 1 Corinthians 3

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