Golden Text & Responsive Reading
April 14 - 20, 2025
GOLDEN TEXT:​
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I John 4:9
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
RESPONSIVE READING:
Isaiah 49:13; 52:3, 13; 53:1, 3, 4 (to :), 5; Acts 3:26 God
Isa. 49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
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52:3 For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
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13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
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53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
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3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
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4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
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5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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Acts 3:26 . . . God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
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