Sunday 14 July 2024

12Amaziah also said to Amos,“You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah,and there eat bread,and prophesy there,13but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel;for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”

14Then Amos answered Amaziah,“I was no prophet,neither was I a prophet’s son,but I was a herdsman,and a farmer of sycamore figs;15and the Lord took me from following the flock,and the Lord said to me,‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

9I will hear what God, the Lord, will speak,for he will speak peace to his people, his saints;but let them not turn again to folly.10Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,that glory may dwell in our land.

11Mercy and truth meet together.Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.12Truth springs out of the earth.Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

13Yes, the Lord will give that which is good.Our land will yield its increase.14Righteousness goes before him,and prepares the way for his steps.

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,that we would be holyand without defect before him in love,5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself,according to the good pleasure of his desire,6to the praise of the glory of his grace,by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.7In him we have our redemption through his blood,the forgiveness of our trespasses,according to the riches of his grace8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,9making known to us the mystery of his will,according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him10to an administration of the fullness of the times,to sum up all things in Christ,the things in the heavensand the things on the earth, in him.11We were also assigned an inheritance in him,having been foreordained according to the purpose of himwho does all things after the counsel of his will,12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory,we who had before hoped in Christ.13In him you also, having heard the word of the truth,the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed,you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,14who is a pledge of our inheritance,to the redemption of God’s own possession,to the praise of his glory.

7He called to himself the twelve,and began to send them out two by two;and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.8He commanded themthat they should take nothing for their journey,except a staff only:no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,9but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.10He said to them, “Wherever you enter into a house,stay there until you depart from there.11Whoever will not receive you nor hear you,as you depart from there,shake off the dustthat is under your feet for a testimony against them.Assuredly, I tell you,it will be more tolerable for Sodomand Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

12They went out and preached that people should repent.13They cast out many demons,and anointed many with oil who were sick and healed them.