Live by the Word

January 1
In the beginning, God created the
heavens and the earth.

- Genesis 1:1
January 2
The fear of the LORD is the beginning
of knowledge;
   fools despise wisdom and
instruction.

- Proverbs 1:7
January 3
And God said, "Let there be lights in the
expanse of the heavens to separate
the day from the night. And let them
be for signs and for seasons, and for
days and years, and let them be lights
in the expanse of the heavens to give
light upon the earth." And it was so.
- Genesis 1:14-15
January 4
"And to the angel of the church in
Laodicea write: 'The words of the
Amen, the faithful and true witness,
the beginning of God’s creation.

Revelation 3:14
January 5
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
first and the last, the beginning and
the end."

- Revelation 22:13
January 6
but he shall acknowledge the firstborn,
the son of the unloved, by giving him
a double portion of all that he has,
for he is the firstfruits of his strength.
The right of the firstborn is his.

- Deuteronomy 21:17
January 7
"Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
   for he has visited and redeemed his people
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
    in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy
prophets from of old, that we should be
saved from our enemies
   and from the hand of all who hate us;
- Luke 1:68-71
January 8
For then there will be great tribulation,
such as has not been from the
beginning of the world until now, no,
and never will be.

- Matthew 24:21
January 9
In this manner you shall eat it: with
your belt fastened, your sandals on
your feet, and your staff in your
hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It
is the LORD’s Passover.

- Exodus 12:11
January 10
But the land that you are going over to
possess is a land of hills and valleys,
which drinks water by the rain from
heaven, a land that the LORD your God
cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God
are always upon it, from the beginning of
the year to the end of the year.
- Deuteronomy 11:11-12
January 11
And the LORD came down to see the city and
the tower, which the children of man had built.
And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one
people, and they have all one language, and
this is only the beginning of what they will do.
And nothing that they propose to do will now
be impossible for them. Come, let us go down
and there confuse their language, so that they
may not understand one another’s speech."
- Genesis 11:5-7
January 12
And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first
seven plump cows, but when they
had eaten them no one would have
known that they had eaten them, for
they were still as ugly as at the
beginning. Then I awoke.
- Genesis 41:20-21
January 13
And when you go to war in your land against the
adversary who oppresses you, then you shall
sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you
may be remembered before the LORD your
God, and you shall be saved from your
enemies. On the day of your gladness also,
and at your appointed feasts and at the
beginnings of your months, you shall blow the
trumpets over your burnt offerings and over
the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They
shall be a reminder of you before your God: I
am the LORD your God.“
- Numbers 10:9-10
January 14
Then the LORD said to Samuel, "Behold, I am
about to do a thing in Israel at which the two
ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. On
that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have
spoken concerning his house, from beginning
to end. And I declare to him that I am about
to punish his house forever, for the iniquity
that he knew, because his sons were
blaspheming God, and he did not restrain
them.
- 1 Samuel 3:11-13
January 15
And the LORD blessed the latter days of
Job more than his beginning. And he
had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000
yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female
donkeys. He had also seven sons and
three daughters.

- Job 42:12-13
January 16
The fear of the LORD is the beginning
of wisdom; all those who practice it
have a good understanding. His
praise endures forever!

- Psalm 111:10
January 17
Let the wise hear and increase in learning,
   and the one who understands obtain
guidance,
to understand a proverb and a saying,
    the words of the wise and their riddles.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge;
   fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 1:5-7
January 18
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
    love her, and she will guard you.
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get
wisdom,
   and whatever you get, get insight.
Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
   she will honor you if you embrace her.
- Proverbs 4:6-8
January 19
"I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,
   and I find knowledge and discretion…

"The LORD possessed me at the beginning of

his work,
   the first of his acts of old.
Ages ago I was set up,
   at the first, before the beginning of the
earth.

- Proverbs 8:12, 22-23

January 20
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be
still wiser;
   teach a righteous man, and he will increase
in learning.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
wisdom,
   and the knowledge of the Holy One is
insight.
For by me your days will be multiplied,
   and years will be added to your life.
- Proverbs 9:9-11
January 21
No one who denies the Son has the Father.
Whoever confesses the Son has the Father
also. Let what you heard from the
beginning abide in you. If what you heard
from the beginning abides in you, then you
too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
And this is the promise that he made to us
—eternal life.
- 1 John 2:23-25
January 22
In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word
was God. He was in the beginning
with God. All things were made
through him, and without him was
not any thing made that was made.
- John 1:1-3
January 23
For nation will rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom, and there
will be famines and earthquakes in
various places. All these are but the
beginning of the birth pains.

- Matthew 24:7-8
January 24
But from the beginning of creation, 'God
made them male and female.' 'Therefore
a man shall leave his father and mother
and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall
become one flesh.’ So they are no longer
two but one flesh. What therefore God
has joined together, let not man
separate."
- Mark 10:6-9
January 25
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on
them just as on us at the beginning. And I
remembered the word of the Lord, how he
said, 'John baptized with water, but you will
be baptized with the Holy Spirit.‘ If then God
gave the same gift to them as he gave to us
when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was I that I could stand in God’s way?"
- Acts 11:15-17
January 26
And,

    "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth

in the beginning,
   and the heavens are the work of your hands;
they will perish, but you remain;…
But you are the same,
   and your years will have no end."
- Hebrews 1:10, 12b
January 27
But when he saw the wind, he was
afraid, and beginning to sink he cried
out, "Lord, save me." Jesus
immediately reached out his hand and
took hold of him, saying to him, "O
you of little faith, why did you doubt?"
- Matthew 14:30-31
January 28
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah
the prophet,
    "Behold, I send my messenger before
your face,
   who will prepare your way,
the voice of one crying in the wilderness:
    'Prepare the way of the Lord,
   make his paths straight,'“
- Mark 1:1-3
January 29
"But when the Helper comes, whom I will
send to you from the Father, the Spirit
of truth, who proceeds from the Father,
he will bear witness about me. And you
also will bear witness, because you
have been with me from the beginning.
- John 15:26-27
January 30
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again?
Or do we need, as some do, letters of
recommendation to you, or from you? You
yourselves are our letter of recommendation,
written on our hearts, to be known and read
by all. And you show that you are a letter from
Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but
with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets
of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
- 2 Corinthians 3:1-3
January 31
Who has performed and done this,
   calling the generations from the
beginning?
I, the LORD, the first,
   and with the last; I am he.

- Isaiah 41:4
 February 1
Mary therefore took a pound of
expensive ointment made from pure
nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus
and wiped his feet with her hair. The
house was filled with the fragrance of
the perfume.

- John 12:3
 February 2
We know that we have passed out of
death into life, because we love the
brothers. Whoever does not love
abides in death.

- 1 John 3:14
 February 3
There is no fear in love, but perfect
love casts out fear. For fear has to do
with punishment, and whoever fears
has not been perfected in love.

- 1 John 4:18
 February 4
A friend loves at all times,
   and a brother is born for adversity.

- Proverbs 17:17
 February 5
A man of many companions may come
to ruin,
   but there is a friend who sticks
closer than a brother.

- Proverbs 18:24
 February 6
But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him
out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take
his life." And Reuben said to them, "Shed
no blood; throw him into this pit here in
the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on
him"—that he might rescue him out of
their hand to restore him to his father.
- Genesis 37:21-22
 February 7
You will arise and have pity on Zion;
   it is the time to favor her;
    the appointed time has come.
For your servants hold her stones dear
   and have pity on her dust.

- Psalm 102:13-14
 February 8
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
   "May they be secure who love you!
Peace be within your walls
   and security within your towers!"
For my brothers and companions’ sake
   I will say, "Peace be within you!"
For the sake of the house of the LORD our
God,
   I will seek your good.
- Psalm 122:6-9
 February 9
The LORD bless you from Zion!
   May you see the prosperity of
Jerusalem
   all the days of your life!
May you see your children’s children!
   Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 128:5-6
 February 10
Therefore I said: "Look away from me;
    let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
   concerning the destruction of the
daughter of my people."

- Isaiah 22:4
 February 11
By the waters of Babylon,
   there we sat down and wept,
   when we remembered Zion.
On the willows there
   we hung up our lyres.
For there our captors
   required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
   "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!“ How shall we sing the
LORD’s song
   in a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
    let my right hand forget its skill!
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
   if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
   above my highest joy!
- Psalm 137:1-6
 February12
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your
work and the love that you have shown for
his name in serving the saints, as you still
do. And we desire each one of you to show
the same earnestness to have the full
assurance of hope until the end, so that
you may not be sluggish, but imitators of
those who through faith and patience
inherit the promises.
- Hebrews 6:10-12
 February 13
And because he loved your fathers and chose
their offspring after them and brought you
out of Egypt with his own presence, by his
great power, driving out before you nations
greater and mightier than yourselves, to
bring you in, to give you their land for an
inheritance, as it is this day, know therefore
today, and lay it to your heart, that the
LORD is God in heaven above and on the
earth beneath; there is no other.
- Deuteronomy 4:37-39
 February 14
My beloved has gone down to his
garden
   to the beds of spices,
to graze in the gardens
   and to gather lilies.
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is
mine;
   he grazes among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 6:2-3
 February 15
It was not because you were more in number
than any other people that the LORD set his
love on you and chose you, for you were the
fewest of all peoples, but it is because the
LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that
he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has
brought you out with a mighty hand and
redeemed you from the house of slavery,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 7:7-8
 February 16
He will love you, bless you, and multiply
you. He will also bless the fruit of your
womb and the fruit of your ground,
your grain and your wine and your oil,
the increase of your herds and the
young of your flock, in the land that
he swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 7:13
 February 17
He executes justice for the fatherless
and the widow, and loves the
sojourner, giving him food and
clothing.

- Deuteronomy 10:18
 February 18
But the LORD your God would not
listen to Balaam; instead the LORD
your God turned the curse into a
blessing for you, because the LORD
your God loved you.

- Deuteronomy 23:5
 February 19
Of Benjamin he said,

   "The beloved of the LORD dwells in

safety. The High God surrounds him
all day long,
   and dwells between his shoulders.“

- Deuteronomy 33:12
 February 20
And I will establish my covenant
between me and you and your
offspring after you throughout their
generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be God to you and to
your offspring after you.

- Genesis 17:7
 February 21
And they shall know that I am the
LORD their God, who brought them
out of the land of Egypt that I might
dwell among them. I am the LORD
their God.

- Exodus 29:46
 February 22
For he delivers the needy when he calls,
   the poor and him who has no helper.
He has pity on the weak and the needy,
   and saves the lives of the needy.
From oppression and violence he
redeems their life,
   and precious is their blood in his sight.
- Psalm 72:12-14
 February 23
I love those who love me,
   and those who seek me diligently
find me.

- Proverbs 8:17
 February 24
then I was beside him, like a master
workman,
and I was daily his delight,
   rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world
   and delighting in the children of man.

- Proverbs 8:30-31
 February 25
He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
    he will gather the lambs in his
arms;
he will carry them in his bosom,
   and gently lead those that are with
young.

- Isaiah 40:11
February 26
Surely he has borne our griefs
   and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    smitten by God, and afflicted.

- Isaiah 53:4
 February 27
"When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at
the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment
over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to
you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord
GOD, and you became mine. Then I bathed you with water
and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with
oil. I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you
with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered
you with silk. And I adorned you with ornaments and put
bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. And I put
a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful
crown on your head. Thus you were adorned with gold and
silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and
embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You
grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. And
your renown went forth among the nations because of your
beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had
bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 16:8-14
 February 28
The next day Moses said to the people, "You have sinned
a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps
I can make atonement for your sin." So Moses
returned to the LORD and said, "Alas, this people has
sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves
gods of gold. But now, if you will forgive their sin—but
if not, please blot me out of your book that you have
written." But the LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has
sinned against me, I will blot out of my book. But now
go, lead the people to the place about which I have
spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you.
Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their
sin upon them."
- Exodus 32:30-34