From Gary... Bible Reading August 26

Bible Reading  

August 26

The World English Bible

Aug. 26

Psalms 1-6

Psa 1:1 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Psa 1:2 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Psa 1:3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Psa 1:4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Psa 1:5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Psa 1:6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psa 2:1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Psa 2:3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

Psa 2:4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Psa 2:5 Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

Psa 2:6 "Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion."

Psa 2:7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Psa 2:8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

Psa 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

Psa 2:10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Psa 2:11 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psa 2:12 Give sincere homage, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Psa 3:1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

Psa 3:2 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

Psa 3:3 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Psa 3:4 I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Psa 3:5 I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

Psa 3:6 I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

Psa 3:7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Psa 3:8 Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.

Psa 4:1 Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Psa 4:2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

Psa 4:3 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

Psa 4:4 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Psa 4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.

Psa 4:6 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

Psa 4:7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

Psa 4:8 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

Psa 5:1 Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

Psa 5:2 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

Psa 5:3 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Psa 5:4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

Psa 5:5 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Psa 5:6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Psa 5:7 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

Psa 5:8 Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

Psa 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Psa 5:10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Psa 5:11 But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

Psa 5:12 For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

Psa 6:1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

Psa 6:2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psa 6:3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?

Psa 6:4 Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness' sake.

Psa 6:5 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Psa 6:6 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Psa 6:7 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Psa 6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

Psa 6:9 Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

Psa 6:10 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

 

Aug. 26

Romans 7

Rom 7:1 Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

Rom 7:2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Rom 7:3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Rom 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Rom 7:6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

Rom 7:8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Rom 7:9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Rom 7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

Rom 7:11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Rom 7:12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Rom 7:13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Rom 7:15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Rom 7:16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

Rom 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Rom 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Rom 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

Rom 7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Rom 7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Rom 7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

Rom 7:23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Rom 7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.