Kế hoạch đọc Kinh Thánh — M'Cheyne One Year

Called from Slaves to Sons

¹Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

²But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father:

³So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.

⁴But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:

⁵That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons.

⁶And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

⁷Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God.

Do Not Turn Back to Weak Elemental Principles

⁸But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them, who, by nature, are not gods.

⁹But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements, which you desire to serve again?

¹⁰You observe days, and months, and times, and years.

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

Paul's Heartfelt Appeal to the Galatians

¹²Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all.

¹³And you know, how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh,

¹⁴You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and would have given them to me.

¹⁶Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

¹⁷They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.

¹⁸But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.

²⁰And I would willingly be present with you now, and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.

Hagar and Sarah, an Allegory of Two Covenants

²¹Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?

²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free woman.

²³But he who was of the bondwoman, was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman, was by promise.

²⁴Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from mount Sina, engendering unto bondage; which is Agar:

²⁵For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

²⁶But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother.

²⁷For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.

²⁸Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

²⁹But as then he, that was born according to the flesh, persecuted him that was after the spirit; so also it is now.

³⁰But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

³¹So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.

Egypt Likened to a Cedar of Lebanon

¹And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the third month, the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

²Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?

³Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.

⁴The waters nourished him, the deep set him up on high, the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.

⁵Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the country: and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated because of many waters.

⁶And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.

⁷And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters.

⁸The cedars in the paradise of God wars not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.

⁹For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him.

The Cedar Cut Down and Brought to Sheol

¹⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord God Because he was exalted in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up in his height:

¹¹I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his wickedness.

¹²And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.

¹³All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the field were among his branches.

¹⁴For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick branches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand up in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down into the pit.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all the trees of the field trembled.

¹⁶I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁷For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are slain by the sword: and the arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

¹⁸To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

A Lament over the Defiled Temple

¹Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

²Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

³Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

⁴Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

⁵O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

⁶How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

⁷Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

⁸O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

⁹Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.

¹⁰Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

¹¹The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

¹²It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

¹³Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

¹⁴The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.

¹⁵Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

¹⁶And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

¹⁷Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁸Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

¹⁹And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

²⁰O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.