Song for Today:
Silent Night
All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight,
But the LORD weighs the motives.
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Commit your works to the LORD
And your plans will be established.
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The LORD has made everything for its own purpose,
Even the wicked for the day of evil.
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Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD;
Assuredly, he will not be unpunished.
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By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for,
And by the fear of the LORD one keeps away from evil.
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The mind of man plans his way,
But the LORD directs his steps.
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A just balance and scales belong to the LORD;
All the weights of the bag are His concern.
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Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
It is better to be humble in spirit with the lowly
Than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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He who gives attention to the word will find good,
And blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.
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He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.
from Proverbs 16
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’ You are presenting defiled food upon My altar.
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from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of hosts.
from Malachi 1
the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
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the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth. For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with wrong,” says the LORD of hosts. “So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”
from Malachi 2
Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the LORD of hosts. “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
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“For I, the LORD, do not change;
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you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you.
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Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.
from Malachi 3
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD of hosts.
from Malachi 4
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