We're So Blessed: A Fun 5-Day Family Devotional From CAIN

Spiritual Beings

Freedom in Forgiveness: Discover the Healing in Letting Go by Sara Brunsvold

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The Armor of God: Well Used Against Injury

3-Day Bible Quest: Level 2: Love Unlocked – Powering Up Through Jesus

3-Day Bible Plan: How to Truly Love Thy Neighbor in Today’s World

The Way of the Cross

Bold Faith, Mighty Works: Walking in the Spirit’s Power

Chosen and Complete: Embracing God's Plan Beyond Marriage

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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Washes His Disciples&#8217; Feet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.13.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples&#8217; feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.13.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, &#8220;Lord, are you going to wash my feet?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.13.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.13.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; said Peter, &#8220;you shall never wash my feet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then, Lord,&#8221; Simon Peter replied, &#8220;not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.13.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.13.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you understand what I have done for you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked them. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You call me &#8216;Teacher&#8217; and &#8216;Lord,&#8217; and rightly so, for that is what I am.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another&#8217;s feet.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Betrayal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.13.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: &#8216;He who shared my bread has turned</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">has lifted up his heel</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">against me.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.41.9">Psalm 41:9</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.13.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.13.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.13.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, &#8220;Ask him which one he means.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.13.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, &#8220;Lord, who is it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.13.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.13.27"><span class="content">So Jesus told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What you are about to do, do quickly.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts Peter&#8217;s Denial</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.13.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When he was gone, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If God is glorified in him,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">13:32 </span><span class="ft">Many early manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">If God is glorified in him.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.13.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.13.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.13.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Simon Peter asked him, &#8220;Lord, where are you going?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Peter asked, &#8220;Lord, why can&#8217;t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.13.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.13.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moral Benefits of Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if you accept my words</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">and store up my commands within you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">turning your ear to wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">and applying your heart to understanding&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">indeed, if you call out for insight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">and cry aloud for understanding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and if you look for it as for silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">and search for it as for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">then you will understand the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">and find the knowledge of God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He holds success in store for the upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">for he guards the course of the just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">and protects the way of his faithful ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then you will understand what is right and just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">and fair&#8212;every good path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For wisdom will enter your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Discretion will protect you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">and understanding will guard you.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">from men whose words are perverse,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who have left the straight paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">to walk in dark ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">who delight in doing wrong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">whose paths are crooked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">and who are devious in their ways.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">from the wayward woman with her seductive words,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">who has left the partner of her youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">and ignored the covenant she made before God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">covenant of her God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Surely her house leads down to death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">and her paths to the spirits of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">None who go to her return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">or attain the paths of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Thus you will walk in the ways of the good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">and keep to the paths of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the upright will live in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">and the blameless will remain in it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">but the wicked will be cut off from the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="content">and the unfaithful will be torn from it.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GAL.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GAL.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. </span></span></div>
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