Deuteronomy 23, Psalm 112, 113, Isaiah 50, Revelation 20

Deuteronomy 23,

1 No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the LORD.
 
2 No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation.
 
3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation.
 
4 For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you.
 
5 However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
 
6 Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.
 
7 Do not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as an alien in his country.
 
8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
 
9 When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.
 
10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.
 
11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.
 
12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.
 
13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
 
14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
 
15 If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand him over to his master.
 
16 Let him live among you wherever he likes and in whatever town he chooses. Do not oppress him.
 
17 No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.
 
18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both.
 
19 Do not charge your brother interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.
 
20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a brother Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.
 
21 If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the LORD your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.
 
22 But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.
 
23 Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
 
24 If you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket.
 
25 If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.

Psalm 112, 113,

1 Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who finds great delight in his commands.
 
2 His children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
 
3 Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
 
4 Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.
 
5 Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely, who conducts his affairs with justice.
 
6 Surely he will never be shaken; a righteous man will be remembered forever.
 
7 He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
 
8 His heart is secure, he will have no fear; in the end he will look in triumph on his foes.
 
9 He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor, his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.
 
10 The wicked man will see and be vexed, he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.

1 Praise the LORD. Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
 
2 Let the name of the LORD be praised, both now and forevermore.
 
3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.
 
4 The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
 
5 Who is like the LORD our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,
 
6 who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?
 
7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
 
8 he seats them with princes, with the princes of their people.
 
9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.

Isaiah 50,

1 This is what the LORD says: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
 
2 When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to ransom you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
 
3 I clothe the sky with darkness and make sackcloth its covering."
 
4 The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.
 
5 The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears, and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back.
 
6 I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.
 
7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.
 
8 He who vindicates me is near. Who then will bring charges against me? Let us face each other! Who is my accuser? Let him confront me!
 
9 It is the Sovereign LORD who helps me. Who is he that will condemn me? They will all wear out like a garment; the moths will eat them up.
 
10 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the word of his servant? Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.
 
11 But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze.This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.

Revelation 20

1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.
 
2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
 
3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
 
4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
 
5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
 
6 Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
 
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison
 
8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth-Gog and Magog-to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.
 
9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
 
10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
 
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.
 
12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
 
13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done.
 
14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
 
15 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.