Tuesday, February 29

19If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good things of the land.

20But if you are unwilling and disobedient, you shall be devoured by the sword,' for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

21How the faithful city of Zion has become a prostitute! It was full of judgment. Righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

22Your silver is worthless; your tavernkeepers mix wine with water.

23Your rulers are disobedient and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They do not defend the orphans, nor do they regard the cause of the widow.

24Therefore says the Master, the Lord of hosts: 'Woe to the mighty ones of Israel, for My anger against the adversaries will not cease; and I will execute judgment on My enemies.

25I will bring My hand upon you and purge you completely. I will destroy those who disobey and remove all the lawless from you; I will humble all the arrogant.

26I will establish your judges as at the first and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward, you shall be called the city of righteousness, Zion, the faithful mother-city.'

27For her captives shall be saved with judgment and with mercy.

28The lawless and sinners shall be destroyed together. Those who forsake the Lord shall come to an end.

29For they shall be ashamed of the idols they desired and the gardens they longed for.

30For they shall be as a terebinth tree that has lost its leaves; like a garden with no water.

31Their strength shall be as broken fiber and their works as sparks of fire. The lawless and the sinners will burn together, and no one shall quench them.

1The word that came from the Lord to Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2Now it shall come to pass in the last days, the mountain of the Lord and the house of God shall be visible on the tops of the mountains and exalted above the hills. All the Gentiles shall come to it.

3Many Gentiles shall travel and say, 'Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will proclaim His way to us, and we shall walk in it.' For the law of the Lord shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

14Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven for illumination to divide day from night.

15Let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years. Let them be for illumination in the firmament of heaven to give light on the earth.' It was so.

16Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.

17God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light on the earth,

18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

19So evening and morning were the fourth day.

20Then God said, 'Let the waters bring forth creatures having life, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of heaven's firmament.' It was so.

21Thus God made great sea creatures and every living thing that moves with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

22God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on earth.'

23So evening and morning were the fifth day.

20Wisdom sings in the streets; She moves boldly in the squares.

21She preaches on high city walls And sits at the gates of lords. At the gates of a city she boldly says,

22"So long a time as the simple hold fast to righteousness, They shall not be ashamed;

23But those without discernment, since they are desirous of arrogance, And are become ungodly, they hate perception, And are become subject to reproofs.

24Behold, I shall bring forth upon you the utterance of my breath, And I shall teach you my word.

25Since I called, but you did not obey, And spoke at length, but you paid no attention,

26But made my counsels invalid, And were not persuaded by my reproofs;

27Consequently, I will laugh at your annihilation, And will exult when ruin comes to you,

28And when confusion reaches you unawares, And overthrow comes like a whirlwind,

29And when tribulation and anguish come to you, And when destruction comes to you.

30For it shall be, when you shall call upon me, I will not listen to you;

31Evil men will seek me, but not find me, For they hate wisdom, and choose not the fear of the Lord.

32Neither do they wish to follow my counsels, But despise my reproofs.

33Therefore, they shall eat the fruits of their own way And be filled with their own ungodliness.

18Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

22Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

23Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

24Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

25And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.

26These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.

27But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

28And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

29If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

1Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

2Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

4Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

5And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

6Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

7Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

9Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

10In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

1Now when they drew near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples;

2and He said to them, 'Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have entered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat.

3Loose it and bring it. And if anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it,' and immediately he will send it here.'

4So they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door outside on the street, and they loosed it.

5But some of those who stood there said to them, 'What are you doing, loosing the colt?'

6And they spoke to them just as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go.

7Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and He sat on it.

8And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

9Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: 'Hosanna! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'

10Blessed is the kingdom of our father David That comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!'

11And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.