Today’s
Reading : 1Kings 13 – 14 and 1Corinthians
7 (KJV)
1Kings 13
1Ki
13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of
Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to
burn incense.
1Ki 13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of
the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the
LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name;
and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense
upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
1Ki 13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This
is the sign which the LORD hath spoken;
Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are
upon it shall be poured out.
1Ki 13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard
the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that
he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand,
which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again
to him.
1Ki 13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured
out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the
word of the LORD.
1Ki 13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man
of God, Entreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand
may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's
hand was restored him again, and became as it
was before.
1Ki 13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come
home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
1Ki 13:8 And the man of God said unto the king, If
thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in
with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
1Ki 13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the
LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way
that thou camest.
1Ki 13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by
the way that he came to Bethel.
1Ki 13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and
his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day
in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to
their father.
1Ki 13:12 And their father said unto them, What way
went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from
Judah.
1Ki 13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass.
So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
1Ki 13:14 And went after the man of God, and found him
sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art
thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he
said, I am.
1Ki 13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and
eat bread.
1Ki 13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor
go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this
place:
1Ki 13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the
LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there,
nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
1Ki 13:18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of
the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine
house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But
he lied unto him.
1Ki 13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread
in his house, and drank water.
1Ki 13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the
table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
1Ki 13:21 And he cried unto the man of God that came
from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as
thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment
which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
1Ki 13:22 But camest back,
and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD
did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcass shall not come
unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1Ki 13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten
bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit,
for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1Ki 13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the
way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by
it, the lion also stood by the carcass.
1Ki 13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the
carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass: and they came
and told it in the city where the old
prophet dwelt.
1Ki 13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back
from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the
word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which
hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke
unto him.
1Ki 13:27 And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me
the ass. And they saddled him.
1Ki 13:28 And he went and found his carcass cast in the
way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten
the carcass, nor torn the ass.
1Ki 13:29 And the prophet took up the carcass of the
man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet
came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
1Ki 13:30 And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and
they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my
brother!
1Ki 13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him,
that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre
wherein the man of God is buried; lay my
bones beside his bones:
1Ki 13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of
the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high
places which are in the cities of
Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
1Ki 13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from
his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high
places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
1Ki 13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of
Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to
destroy it from off the face of the
earth.
1Kings 14
1Ki
14:1 At that time Abijah
the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
1Ki 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray
thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam;
and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is
Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
1Ki 14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels,
and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of
the child.
1Ki 14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and
went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of
his age.
1Ki 14:5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah,
Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt
thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign
herself to be another woman.
1Ki 14:6 And it was so,
when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came
in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be
another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
1Ki 14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and
made thee prince over my people Israel,
1Ki 14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of
David, and gave it thee: and yet thou
hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed
me with all his heart, to do that only which was
right in mine eyes;
1Ki 14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before
thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to
provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
1Ki 14:10 Therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the
house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth
against the wall, and him that is shut
up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam,
as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
1Ki 14:11 Him that dieth of
Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth
in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
1Ki 14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and
when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
1Ki 14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury
him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is
found some good thing toward the LORD
God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
1Ki 14:14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king
over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even
now.
1Ki 14:15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is
shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which
he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they
have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
1Ki 14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the
sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
1Ki 14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and
came to Tirzah: and
when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
1Ki 14:18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned
for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by the hand of his
servant Ahijah the prophet.
1Ki 14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he
warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
1Ki 14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his
fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
1Ki 14:21 And Rehoboam the
son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did
choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's
name was Naamah
an Ammonitess.
1Ki 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD,
and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed,
above all that their fathers had done.
1Ki 14:23 For they also built them high places, and
images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
1Ki 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of
the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
1Ki 14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam, that
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
1Ki 14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house
of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and
he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
1Ki 14:27 And king Rehoboam
made in their stead brazen shields, and committed them
unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's
house.
1Ki 14:28 And it was so,
when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bore them, and
brought them back into the guard chamber.
1Ki 14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1Ki 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all their days.
1Ki 14:31 And Rehoboam slept
with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his
mother's name was Naamah
an Ammonitess. And Abijam
his son reigned in his stead.
1Corinthians 7
1Co
7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote
unto me: It is
good for a man not to touch a woman.
1Co 7:2 Nevertheless, to
avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every
woman have her own husband.
1Co 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1Co 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but
the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but
the wife.
1Co 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with
consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come
together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
1Co 7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
1Co 7:7 For I would that all men were even as I
myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and
another after that.
1Co 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows,
It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1Co 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry:
for it is better to marry than to burn.
1Co 7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart
from her husband:
1Co 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain
unmarried, or be reconciled to her
husband: and let not the husband put away his
wife.
1Co 7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any
brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him,
let him not put her away.
1Co 7:13 And the woman which hath a husband that
believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
1Co 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by
the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your
children unclean; but now are they holy.
1Co 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him
depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
1Co 7:16 For what knowest
thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest
thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
1Co 7:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as
the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all
churches.
1Co 7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him
not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision?
let him not be circumcised.
1Co 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the
commandments of God.
1Co 7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling
wherein he was called.
1Co 7:21 Art thou called being
a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be
made free, use it rather.
1Co 7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise
also he that is called, being free, is
Christ's servant.
1Co 7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the
servants of men.
1Co 7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is
called, therein abide with God.
1Co 7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment
of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the
Lord to be faithful.
1Co 7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the
present distress, I say, that it
is good for a man so to be.
1Co 7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be
loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
1Co 7:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned;
and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have
trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
1Co 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,
that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
1Co 7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not;
and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as
though they possessed not;
1Co 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
1Co 7:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He
that is unmarried careth for the things that belong
to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
1Co 7:33 But he that is married careth
for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
1Co 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried
woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may
be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth
for the things of the world, how she may please her
husband.
1Co 7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not
that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may
attend upon the Lord without distraction.
1Co 7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward
his virgin, if she pass the flower of her
age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth
not: let them marry.
1Co 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth
steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will,
and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
1Co 7:38 So then he that giveth
her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in
marriage doeth better.
1Co 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband
liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty
to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1Co 7:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my
judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.