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5Take me by the hand;Lead me down the path of truth.You are my Savior, aren’t you?
6Mark the milestones of your mercy and love, God;Rebuild the ancient landmarks!
7Forget that I sowed wild oats;Mark me with your sign of love.Plan only the best for me, God!
13,14Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you’ve got, be resolute, and love without stopping.
20All the friends here say hello.Pass the greetings around with holy hugs!
22If anyone won’t love the Master, throw him out. Make room for the Master!
9,10Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.
14-16Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy; share tears when they’re down. Get along with each other; don’t be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don’t be the great somebody.
17-19Don’t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you’ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don’t insist on getting even; that’s not for you to do. "I’ll do the judging," says God. "I’ll take care of it."
5,6Oh! Give me something refreshing to eat—and quickly!Apricots, raisins—anything. I’m about to faint with love!His left hand cradles my head,and his right arm encircles my waist!
1If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.Love never gives up.Love cares more for others than for self.Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.Love doesn’t strut,Doesn’t have a swelled head,Doesn’t force itself on others,Isn’t always "me first,"Doesn’t fly off the handle,Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,Doesn’t revel when others grovel,Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,Puts up with anything,Trusts God always,Always looks for the best,Never looks back,But keeps going to the end.
7-10My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.
17,18God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.
19We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
3He remembered to love us, a bonusTo his dear family, Israel—indefatigable love.The whole earth comes to attention.Look—God’s work of salvation!
4Shout your praises to God, everybody!Let loose and sing! Strike up the band!
9A tribute to God when he comes,When he comes to set the earth right.He’ll straighten out the whole world,He’ll put the world right, and everyone in it.
1I went to my garden, dear friend, best lover!breathed the sweet fragrance.I ate the fruit and honey,I drank the nectar and wine.Celebrate with me, friends!Raise your glasses—"To life! To love!"
8I beg you, sisters in Jerusalem—if you find my lover,Please tell him I want him,that I’m heartsick with love for him.
9What’s so great about your lover, fair lady?What’s so special about him that you beg for our help?
1After all these things, this word of God came to Abram in a vision: "Don’t be afraid, Abram. I’m your shield. Your reward will be grand!"
5Then he took him outside and said, "Look at the sky. Count the stars. Can you do it? Count your descendants! You’re going to have a big family, Abram!"
13-16God said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they’ll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years. Then I’ll punish their slave masters; your offspring will march out of there loaded with plunder. But not you; you’ll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death. Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."
6-8God’s Message:"Because of the three great sins of Israel—make that four—I’m not putting up with them any longer.They buy and sell upstanding people.People for them are only things—ways of making money.They’d sell a poor man for a pair of shoes.They’d sell their own grandmother!They grind the penniless into the dirt,shove the luckless into the ditch.Everyone and his brother sleeps with the ‘sacred whore’—a sacrilege against my Holy Name.Stuff they’ve extorted from the pooris piled up at the shrine of their god,While they sit around drinking winethey’ve conned from their victims.
9-11"In contrast, I was always on your side.I destroyed the Amorites who confronted you,Amorites with the stature of great cedars,tough as thick oaks.I destroyed them from the top branches down.I destroyed them from the roots up.And yes, I’m the One who delivered you from Egypt,led you safely through the wilderness for forty yearsAnd then handed you the country of the Amoriteslike a piece of cake on a platter.I raised up some of your young men to be prophets,set aside your best youth for training in holiness.Isn’t this so, Israel?"God’s Decree.
14-16"When I go into action, what will you do?There’s no place to run no matter how fast you run.The strength of the strong won’t count.Fighters won’t make it.Skilled archers won’t make it.Fast runners won’t make it.Chariot drivers won’t make it.Even the bravest of all your warriorsWon’t make it.He’ll run off for dear life, stripped naked."God’s Decree.
28,29Fire once poured out of Heshbon,flames from the city of Sihon;Burning up Ar of Moab,the natives of Arnon’s heights.Doom, Moab!The people of Chemosh, done for!Sons turned out as fugitives, daughters abandoned as captivesto the king of the Amorites, to Sihon.
31,32Israel moved in and lived in Amorite country. Moses sent men to scout out Jazer. They captured its villages and drove away the Amorites who lived there.
34God said to Moses, "Don’t be afraid of him. I’m making a present of him to you, him and all his people and his land. Treat him the same as Sihon king of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon."
6-8And then the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God’s sight. They worshiped the Baal gods and Ashtoreth goddesses: gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab; gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They just walked off and left God, quit worshiping him. And God exploded in hot anger at Israel and sold them off to the Philistines and Ammonites, who, beginning that year, bullied and battered the People of Israel mercilessly. For eighteen years they had them under their thumb, all the People of Israel who lived east of the Jordan in the Amorite country of Gilead.
15The People of Israel said to God: "We’ve sinned. Do to us whatever you think best, but please, get us out of this!"
16Then they cleaned house of the foreign gods and worshiped only God. And God took Israel’s troubles to heart.
7-10"Then they cried out for help to God. He put a cloud between you and the Egyptians and then let the sea loose on them. It drowned them."You watched the whole thing with your own eyes, what I did to Egypt. And then you lived in the wilderness for a long time. I brought you to the country of the Amorites, who lived east of the Jordan, and they fought you. But I fought for you and you took their land. I destroyed them for you. Then Balak son of Zippor made his appearance. He was the king of Moab. He got ready to fight Israel by sending for Balaam son of Beor to come and curse you. But I wouldn’t listen to Balaam—he ended up blessing you over and over! I saved you from him.
15"If you decide that it’s a bad thing to worship God, then choose a god you’d rather serve—and do it today. Choose one of the gods your ancestors worshiped from the country beyond The River, or one of the gods of the Amorites, on whose land you’re now living. As for me and my family, we’ll worship God."
17,18"God is our God! He brought up our ancestors from Egypt and from slave conditions. He did all those great signs while we watched. He has kept his eye on us all along the roads we’ve traveled and among the nations we’ve passed through. Just for us he drove out all the nations, Amorites and all, who lived in the land."Count us in: We too are going to worship God. He’s our God."
2,3Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned from Heshbon: His rule extended from Aroer, which sits at the edge of the Arnon Gorge, from the middle of the gorge and over half of Gilead to the Gorge of the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. His rule included the eastern Arabah Valley from the Sea of Kinnereth to the Arabah Sea (the Salt Sea), eastward toward Beth Jeshimoth and southward to the slopes of Pisgah.
1,2Then this: Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim went off to war to fight Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, that is, Zoar.
22-24But Abram told the king of Sodom, "I swear to God, The High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, this solemn oath, that I’ll take nothing from you, not so much as a thread or a shoestring. I’m not going to have you go around saying, ‘I made Abram rich.’ Nothing for me other than what the young men ate and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; they’re to get their share of the plunder."* * *
4God saw that he had stopped to look. God called to him from out of the bush, "Moses! Moses!"He said, "Yes? I’m right here!"
5God said, "Don’t come any closer. Remove your sandals from your feet. You’re standing on holy ground."
16,17"Now be on your way. Gather the leaders of Israel. Tell them, ‘God, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to me, saying, "I’ve looked into what’s being done to you in Egypt, and I’ve determined to get you out of the affliction of Egypt and take you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, a land brimming over with milk and honey."’
7,8Yes, the Day is coming when people will notice The One Who Made Them, take a long hard look at The Holy of Israel. They’ll lose interest in all the stuff they’ve made—altars and monuments and rituals, their homemade, handmade religion—however impressive it is.
14At bedtime, terror fills the air.By morning it’s gone—not a sign of it anywhere!This is what happens to those who would ruin us,this is the fate of those out to get us.
12,13Then Solomon offered Whole-Burnt-Offerings to God on the Altar of God that he had built in front of The Temple porch. He kept to the regular schedule of worship set down by Moses: Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual feasts of Unraised Bread (Passover), Weeks (Pentecost), and Booths.
14,15When she arrived she got himto ask for farmland from her father.As she dismounted from her donkeyCaleb asked her, "What would you like?"She said, "Give me a marriage gift.You’ve given me desert land;Now give me pools of water!"And he gave her the upper and the lower pools.* * *
34,35The Amorites pushed the people of Dan up into the hills and wouldn’t let them down on the plains. The Amorites stubbornly continued to live in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph got the upper hand, they were put to forced labor.
36The Amorite border extended from Scorpions’ Pass and Sela upward.* * *
5He said:
19-21Then we set out from Horeb and headed for the Amorite hill country, going through that huge and frightening wilderness that you’ve had more than an eyeful of by now—all under the command of God, our God—and finally arrived at Kadesh Barnea. There I told you, "You’ve made it to the Amorite hill country that God, our God, is giving us. Look, God, your God, has placed this land as a gift before you. Go ahead and take it now. God, the God-of-Your-Fathers, promised it to you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t lose heart."
43-46I told you but you wouldn’t listen. You rebelled at the plain word of God. You threw out your chests and strutted into the hills. And those Amorites, who had lived in those hills all their lives, swarmed all over you like a hive of bees, chasing you from Seir all the way to Hormah, a stinging defeat. You came back and wept in the presence of God, but he didn’t pay a bit of attention to you; God didn’t give you the time of day. You stayed there in Kadesh a long time, about as long as you had stayed there earlier.