Day One

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Day Two

[Deu 7:1-6 ESV] {1} “When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, {2} and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. {3} You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, {4} for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. {5} But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire. {6} “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

[1Ki 11:1-10 ESV] {1} Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, {2} from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. {3} He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. {4} For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. {5} For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. {6} So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done. {7} Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. {8} And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods. {9} And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice {10} and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the LORD commanded.

[Rth 1:1-7, 15-22 ESV] {1} In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. {2} The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. {3} But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. {4} These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, {5} and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. {6} Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food. {7} So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. … {15} And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” {16} But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. {17} Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” {18} And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more. {19} So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?” {20} She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. {21} I went away full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the LORD has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?” {22} So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

[Rth 4:8-17 ESV] {8} So when the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal. {9} Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon. {10} Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.” {11} Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem, {12} and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman.” {13} So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son. {14} Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel! {15} He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.” {16} Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. {17} And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

[Mat 1:1-6 ESV] {1} The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. {2} Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, {3} and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, {4} and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, {5} and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, {6} and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,

[2Co 6:14-18 ESV] {14} Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? {15} What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? {16} What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. {17} Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, {18} and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

[2Co 7:1 ESV] {1} Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

[1Co 7:39 ESV] {39} A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Day Three

[1Sa 2:12-17, 22-25 ESV] {12} Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the LORD. {13} The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand, {14} and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. {15} Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.” {16} And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.” {17} Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD, for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt. … {22} Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting. {23} And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people. {24} No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the LORD spreading abroad. {25} If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the LORD to put them to death.

[1Sa 3:11-13 ESV] {11} Then the LORD said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. {12} On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. {13} And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

[1Sa 15:1-3, 9-23 ESV] {1} And Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD. {2} Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. {3} Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” … {9} But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction. {10} The word of the LORD came to Samuel: {11} “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night. {12} And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.” {13} And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD.” {14} And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?” {15} Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.” {16} Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.” {17} And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel. {18} And the LORD sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ {19} Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?” {20} And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. {21} But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.” {22} And Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. {23} For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”

[Jer 1:16 ESV] {16} And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.

[Jer 6:15 ESV] {15} Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,” says the LORD.

[Jer 8:18-22 ESV] {18} My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me. {19} Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: “Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign idols?” {20} “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” {21} For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me. {22} Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

[Jer 9:1 ESV] {1} Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

[1Co 5:1-13 ESV] {1} It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. {2} And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. {3} For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. {4} When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, {5} you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. {6} Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? {7} Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. {8} Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. {9} I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people– {10} not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. {11} But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler–not even to eat with such a one. {12} For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? {13} God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

Day Four

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Day Five

[Mat 10:32-38 ESV] {32} So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, {33} but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. {34} “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. {35} For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. {36} And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. {37} Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. {38} And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

[Mal 2:10-16 ESV] {10} Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? {11} Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. {12} May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts! {13} And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. {14} But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. {15} Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. {16} “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

[1Co 7:12-16 ESV] {12} To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. {13} If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. {14} For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. {15} But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. {16} For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?