The Word for Friday, 26 April 2024
Know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 7:9 (ESV)
Paul writes:
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 6:1 (ESV)
8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. |
9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, |
10 and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. |
1 Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. |
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For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. |