Monday, March 31

1Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

2But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

4And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

5Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.'

6Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

7Then Jesus said to them again, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

8All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

9I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

33Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: 'He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor build a siege mound against it.

34By the way he came, by the same shall he return,' says the Lord.

35'I will protect this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.' '

36Then the Angel of the Lord went out and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, they discovered all the dead bodies.

37Then Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departed and returned to Nineveh, and dwelt there.

38Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword, then escaped into the land of Ararat; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

1In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said, 'Thus says the Lord: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.' '

2Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,

3and said, 'Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a true heart, and did what is pleasing in Your sight.' So Hezekiah wept loudly.

4Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,

5'Go and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: 'I heard your prayer, I see your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

6I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city.

12Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, but Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.

13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful before God.

14Then God said to Abram, after Lot separated from him, 'Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward;

15for all the land you see I give to you and your seed forever.

16And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth; that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be numbered.

17Arise, walk in the land through its length and its breadth, for I will give it to you.'

18Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the oak of Mamre in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.

27In the fear of the Lord there is hope of strength, And to His children there remains support.

28The command of the Lord is a fountain of life, For it causes one to turn from the snare of death.

29The glory of a king is in a large nation, But the destruction of a ruler is in a lack of people.

30A longsuffering man is strong in discernment, But the fainthearted man is strongly without discernment.

31A man with a gentle spirit is a healer of the heart, But a sensual heart is the moth of the bones.

32He who oppresses the poor provokes his Maker, But he who honors Him has mercy upon a poor man.

33In his evil an ungodly man will be rejected, But a righteous man has confidence in his own holiness.

34There is wisdom in the good heart of a man, But wisdom is unknown in the heart of those without discernment.

35Righteousness exalts a nation, But sins diminish tribes.

36A wise servant is acceptable to a king, And by his own versatility he removes dishonor.

1Wrath destroys even men of discernment; But a humble answer turns away anger, And a grievous word stirs up wrath.

2The tongue of the wise understands good things, But the mouth of those without discernment proclaims evil things.

3The eyes of the Lord are in every place; They keep watch over both the evil and the good.

4The healing of the tongue is a tree of life, And the one who guards it will be filled with the Spirit.

26For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;

27who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

28For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.

1Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

2a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.

9I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

10The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

11'I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

12But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

13The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.

14I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

15As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

16And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.