April 18: Psalm 34:2–3; Psalm 50:23; 1 Corinthians 6:20; Colossians 3:16–17; Hebrews 13:15; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:9; Psalm 73:25; Song of Solomon 1:4; Song of Solomon 2:10–13; Jeremiah 31:3; Hosea 11:4; John 1:36; John 3:14–15; John 12:32; 1 John 4:19 - a podcast by Crossway

“The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me.”

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.— Glorify God in your body.

But you are a… a royal priesthood… that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.—You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.—Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

My soul makes its boast in theLord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify theLordwith me, and let us exalt his name together!

Psalm 34:2–3(Listen)

2   My soul makes its boast in the LORD;
    let the humble hear and be glad.
3   Oh, magnify the LORD with me,
    and let us exalt his name together!

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Psalm 50:23(Listen)

23   The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
    to one who orders his way rightly
    I will show the salvation of God!”

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1 Corinthians 6:20(Listen)

20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

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Colossians 3:16–17(Listen)

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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Hebrews 13:15(Listen)

15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

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1 Peter 2:5(Listen)

5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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1 Peter 2:9(Listen)

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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Draw me after you; let us run.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”—I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love.—“And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”—“Behold, the Lamb of God!”—“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”

Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.—We love because he first loved us.

My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”

Psalm 73:25(Listen)

25   Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

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Song of Solomon 1:4(Listen)

4   Draw me after you; let us run.
    The king has brought me into his chambers.

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Song of Solomon 2:10–13(Listen)

10   My beloved speaks and says to me:
  “Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away,
11   for behold, the winter is past;
    the rain is over and gone.
12   The flowers appear on the earth,
    the time of singing¹has come,
  and the voice of the turtledove
    is heard in our land.
13   The fig tree ripens its figs,
    and the vines are in blossom;
    they give forth fragrance.
  Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away.

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Jeremiah 31:3(Listen)

3     the LORD appeared to him¹from far away.
  I have loved you with an everlasting love;
    therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

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Hosea 11:4(Listen)

4   I led them with cords of kindness,¹
    with the bands of love,
  and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
    and I bent down to them and fed them.

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John 1:36(Listen)

36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

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John 3:14–15(Listen)

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.¹

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John 12:32(Listen)

32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

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1 John 4:19(Listen)

19 We love because he first loved us.

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