Scripture 1 Corinthians 12:1, 4-7, 27
1 Corinthians 12:1
Now about
spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
1 Corinthians 12:4-7
4 There are
different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but the
same God works all of them in all men. 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ, and each
one of you is a part of it.
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his
father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far
side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There
the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.
Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses
thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight — why the bush does
not burn up."
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him
from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!"
And Moses said, "Here I am."
5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your
sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." 6 Then he
said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac
and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid
to look at God.
7 The Lord said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in
Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am
concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the
hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and
spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey — the home of the Canaanites,
Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the
Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing
them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the
Israelites out of Egypt."
11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh
and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"
12 And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign
to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of
Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain."
13 Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to
them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is
his name?' Then what shall I tell them?"
14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say
to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
15 God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The Lord, the
God of your fathers — the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob
— has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be
remembered from generation to generation.
16 "Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, 'The Lord,
the God of your fathers — the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — appeared to me
and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in
Egypt. 17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into
the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and
Jebusites — a land flowing with milk and honey.'
18 "The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the
elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the
Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the desert to
offer sacrifices to the Lord our God.' 19 But I know that the king of Egypt
will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. 20 So I will stretch out
my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among
them. After that, he will let you go.
21 "And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this
people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. 22 Every woman is
to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver
and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And
so you will plunder the Egyptians."
4 Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me
and say, 'The Lord did not appear to you'?"
2 Then the Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?"
"A staff," he replied.
3 The Lord said, "Throw it on the ground."
Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from
it. 4 Then the Lord said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the
tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back
into a staff in his hand. 5 "This," said the Lord, "is so that
they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers — the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob — has appeared to you."
6 Then the Lord said, "Put your hand inside your cloak." So
Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was leprous,
like snow.
7 "Now put it back into your cloak," he said. So Moses put
his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like
the rest of his flesh.
8 Then the Lord said, "If they do not believe you or pay
attention to the first miraculous sign, they may believe the second. 9 But if
they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the
Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will
become blood on the ground."
10 Moses said to the Lord, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent,
neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of
speech and tongue."
11 The Lord said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him
deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12
Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."
13 But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do
it."
14 Then the Lord's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What
about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already
on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you. 15 You
shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak
and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it
will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 17 But take
this staff in your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it."
18 Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him,
"Let me go back to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still
alive."
Jethro said, "Go, and I wish you well."
19 Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt,
for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead." 20 So Moses took his
wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the
staff of God in his hand.
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