July 9
Jeremiah 42 & Ephesians 5
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Jeremiah 42

Chapter 42

42:1Then all the commanders of the armies, along with Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, approached 2Jeremiah the prophet and said, "May our petition come before you; pray to the Lord your God on our behalf, on behalf of this entire remnant (for few of us remain out of the many, as you can see with your own eyes), 3that the Lord your God may tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do."
4So Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard. I will now pray to the Lord your God according to your words, and every word that the Lord answers you I will tell you; I won't withhold a word from you."
5And they said to Jeremiah, "As for every word the Lord your God sends you to tell us, if we don't act accordingly, may the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us. 6Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you so that it may go well with us. We will certainly obey the voice of the Lord our God!"
7Now at the end of 10 days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, 8and he summoned Johanan son of Kareah, all the commanders of the armies who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.
9He said to them, "This is what the Lord says, the God of Israel to whom you sent me to bring your petition before Him: 10'If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you, and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought on you. 11Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon whom you now fear; don't be afraid of him'-this is the Lord's declaration-'because I am with you to save you and deliver you from him. 12I will grant you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and allow you to return to your own soil. 13But if you say, 'We will not stay in this land,' so as not to obey the voice of the Lord your God, 14and if you say, 'No, instead we'll go to the land of Egypt where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram's horn or hunger for food, and we'll live there,' 15then hear the word of the Lord, remnant of Judah! This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: If you are firmly resolved to go to Egypt and live there for a while, 16then the sword you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you are worried about will follow on your heels there to Egypt, and you will die there. 17All who resolve to go to Egypt to live there for a while will die by the sword, famine, and plague. They will have no one escape or survive from the disaster I will bring on them.'
18"For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Just as My anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem's residents, so will My fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.' 19The Lord has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah: 'Don't go to Egypt.' Know for certain that I have warned you today! 20You have led your own selves astray because you are the ones who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, 'Pray to the Lord our God on our behalf, and as for all that the Lord our God says, tell it to us, and we'll act accordingly.' 21For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in everything He has sent me to tell you. 22Now therefore, know for certain that by the sword, famine, and plague you will die in the place where you desired to go to live for a while."

Ephesians 5

Chapter 5

5:1Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. 2And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. 3But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. 4Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. 5For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
6Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God's wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things. 7Therefore, do not become their partners. 8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light- 9for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth- 10discerning what is pleasing to the Lord. 11Don't participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. 13Everything exposed by the light is made clear, 14for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:
Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.
15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk-not as unwise people but as wise- 16making the most of the time, because the days are evil. 17So don't be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. 18And don't get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:
19speaking to one another
in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
singing and making music
from your heart to the Lord,
20giving thanks always for everything
to God the Father
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21submitting to one another
in the fear of Christ.
22Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, 23for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her 26to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. 27He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. 28In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30since we are members of His body.
31For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh.
32This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

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