March 12: Numbers 6:24; Psalm 5:12; Psalm 121:3–5; Psalm 121:7–8; Proverbs 10:22; Isaiah 27:3; John 17:11–12; 2 Timothy 4:18; Isaiah 50:5–6; Isaiah 53:3; John 11:35–36; Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 2:16–17; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 5:8 - a podcast by Crossway

“TheLordbless you and keep you.”

The blessing of theLordmakes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.—For you bless the righteous, OLord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.

He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. TheLordis your keeper; theLordis your shade on your right hand…. TheLordwill keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. TheLordwill keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.—I, theLord, am its [the vineyard's] keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day.

“Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me.”

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Numbers 6:24(Listen)

24   The LORD bless you and keep you;

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Psalm 5:12(Listen)

12   For you bless the righteous, O LORD;
    you cover him with favor as with a shield.

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Psalm 121:3–5(Listen)

3   He will not let your foot be moved;
    he who keeps you will not slumber.
4   Behold, he who keeps Israel
    will neither slumber nor sleep.
5   The LORD is your keeper;
    the LORD is your shade on your right hand.

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Psalm 121:7–8(Listen)

7   The LORD will keep you from all evil;
    he will keep your life.
8   The LORD will keep
    your going out and your coming in
    from this time forth and forevermore.

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Proverbs 10:22(Listen)

22   The blessing of the LORD makes rich,
    and he adds no sorrow with it.¹

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Isaiah 27:3(Listen)

3     I, the LORD, am its keeper;
    every moment I water it.
    Lest anyone punish it,
  I keep it night and day;

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John 17:11–12(Listen)

11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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2 Timothy 4:18(Listen)

18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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Jesus wept.

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.—For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses.—For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.—Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.

I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.

“See how he loved him!”—For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Isaiah 50:5–6(Listen)

5   The Lord GOD has opened my ear,
    and I was not rebellious;
    I turned not backward.
6   I gave my back to those who strike,
    and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
  I hid not my face
    from disgrace and spitting.

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Isaiah 53:3(Listen)

3   He was despised and rejected¹by men,
    a man of sorrows²and acquainted with³grief;⁴
  and as one from whom men hide their faces⁵
    he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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John 11:35–36(Listen)

35 Jesus wept.36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

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Hebrews 2:10(Listen)

10 For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

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Hebrews 2:16–17(Listen)

16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

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Hebrews 4:15(Listen)

15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

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Hebrews 5:8(Listen)

8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.

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