Bible Reading August 31 and September 1
World English Bible
Aug.
31
Psalm
23-25
Psa
23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
Psa
23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside
still waters.
Psa
23:3 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
Psa
23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they
comfort me.
Psa
23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
Psa
23:6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the
days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
Psa
24:1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those
who dwell therein.
Psa
24:2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the
floods.
Psa
24:3 Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy
place?
Psa
24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up
his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Psa
24:5 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the
God of his salvation.
Psa
24:6 This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your
face--even Jacob. Selah.
Psa
24:7 Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting
doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psa
24:8 Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh
mighty in battle.
Psa
24:9 Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you
everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psa
24:10 Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Armies is the King of
glory! Selah.
Psa
25:1 To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
Psa
25:2 My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. Don't
let my enemies triumph over me.
Psa
25:3 Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be
shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
Psa
25:4 Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
Psa
25:5 Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my
salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Psa
25:6 Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness,
for they are from old times.
Psa
25:7 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness'
sake, Yahweh.
Psa
25:8 Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners
in the way.
Psa
25:9 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble
his way.
Psa
25:10 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such
as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psa
25:11 For your name's sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is
great.
Psa
25:12 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the
way that he shall choose.
Psa
25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.
Psa
25:14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will
show them his covenant.
Psa
25:15 My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of
the net.
Psa
25:16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and
afflicted.
Psa
25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my
distresses.
Psa
25:18 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
Psa
25:19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with
cruel hatred.
Psa
25:20 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed,
for I take refuge in you.
Psa
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Psa
25:22 Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles.
Sept.
1
Psalms
26-29
Psa
26:1 Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have
trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
Psa
26:2 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
Psa
26:3 For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in
your truth.
Psa
26:4 I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with
hypocrites.
Psa
26:5 I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the
wicked.
Psa
26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your
altar, Yahweh;
Psa
26:7 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell
of all your wondrous works.
Psa
26:8 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where
your glory dwells.
Psa
26:9 Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with
bloodthirsty men;
Psa
26:10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of
bribes.
Psa
26:11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be
merciful to me.
Psa
26:12 My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will
bless Yahweh.
Psa
27:1 Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh
is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
Psa
27:2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my
adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psa
27:3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not
fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be
confident.
Psa
27:4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that
I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see
Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psa
27:5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his
pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will
lift me up on a rock.
Psa
27:6 Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I
will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will
sing praises to Yahweh.
Psa
27:7 Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me,
and answer me.
Psa
27:8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you,
"I will seek your face, Yahweh."
Psa
27:9 Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in
anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me,
God of my salvation.
Psa
27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take
me up.
Psa
27:11 Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because
of my enemies.
Psa
27:12 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for
false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out
cruelty.
Psa
27:13 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of
Yahweh in the land of the living.
Psa
27:14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage.
Yes, wait for Yahweh.
Psa
28:1 To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if
you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the
pit.
Psa
28:2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift
up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Psa
28:3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of
iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in
their hearts.
Psa
28:4 Give them according to their work, and according to the
wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of
their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.
Psa
28:5 Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, nor the
operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them
up.
Psa
28:6 Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my
petitions.
Psa
28:7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in
him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my
song I will thank him.
Psa
28:8 Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to
his anointed.
Psa
28:9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd
also, and bear them up forever.
Psa
29:1 Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh
glory and strength.
Psa
29:2 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in
holy array.
Psa
29:3 Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders,
even Yahweh on many waters.
Psa
29:4 Yahweh's voice is powerful. Yahweh's voice is full of majesty.
Psa
29:5 The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in
pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Psa
29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like
a young, wild ox.
Psa
29:7 Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
Psa
29:8 Yahweh's voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the
wilderness of Kadesh.
Psa
29:9 Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests
bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"
Psa
29:10 Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King
forever.
Psa
29:11 Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his
people with peace.
Aug. 31
Romans
12
Rom
12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
which is your spiritual service.
Rom
12:2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good,
well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Rom
12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man
who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought
to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each
person a measure of faith.
Rom
12:4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the
members don't have the same function,
Rom
12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually
members one of another.
Rom
12:6 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to
us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our
faith;
Rom
12:7 or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who
teaches, to his teaching;
Rom
12:8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do
it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy,
with cheerfulness.
Rom
12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling
to that which is good.
Rom
12:10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to
another; in honor preferring one another;
Rom
12:11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Rom
12:12 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing
steadfastly in prayer;
Rom
12:13 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
Rom
12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.
Rom
12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
Rom
12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on
high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own
conceits.
Rom
12:17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the
sight of all men.
Rom
12:18 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace
with all men.
Rom
12:19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to
God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will
repay, says the Lord."
Rom
12:20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is
thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of
fire on his head."
Rom
12:21 Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Sept. 1
Romans
13
Rom
13:1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for
there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are
ordained by God.
Rom
13:2 Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the
ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves
judgment.
Rom
13:3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil.
Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is
good, and you will have praise from the same,
Rom
13:4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that
which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for
he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
Rom
13:5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the
wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
Rom
13:6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of
God's service, attending continually on this very thing.
Rom
13:7 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes
are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to
whom honor.
Rom
13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who
loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Rom
13:9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery,"
"You shall not murder," "You shall not steal,"
"You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not
covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all
summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor
as yourself."
Rom
13:10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the
fulfillment of the law.
Rom
13:11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to
awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we
first believed.
Rom
13:12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore
throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
Rom
13:13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and
drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in
strife and jealousy.
Rom
13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for
the flesh, for its lusts.
