Bible Reading for August 27 - 29
World English Bible
Aug.
27
Psalms
7-10
Psa
7:1 Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who
pursue me, and deliver me,
Psa
7:2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces,
while there is none to deliver.
Psa
7:3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my
hands,
Psa
7:4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes,
if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
Psa
7:5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him
tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
Psa
7:6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage
of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
Psa
7:7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them
on high.
Psa
7:8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh,
according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
Psa
7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but
establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the
righteous God.
Psa
7:10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
Psa
7:11 God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every
day.
Psa
7:12 If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent
and strung his bow.
Psa
7:13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He
makes ready his flaming arrows.
Psa
7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived
mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Psa
7:15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
Psa
7:16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His
violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
Psa
7:17 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
Psa
8:1 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth,
who has set your glory above the heavens!
Psa
8:2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established
strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the
enemy and the avenger.
Psa
8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon
and the stars, which you have ordained;
Psa
8:4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that
you care for him?
Psa
8:5 For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him
with glory and honor.
Psa
8:6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put
all things under his feet:
Psa
8:7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,
Psa
8:8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes
through the paths of the seas.
Psa
8:9 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psa
9:1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of
all your marvelous works.
Psa
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your
name, O Most High.
Psa
9:3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your
presence.
Psa
9:4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne
judging righteously.
Psa
9:5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You
have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Psa
9:6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the
cities which you have overthrown has perished.
Psa
9:7 But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for
judgment.
Psa
9:8 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer
judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
Psa
9:9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower
in times of trouble.
Psa
9:10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you,
Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Psa
9:11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among
the people what he has done.
Psa
9:12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the
cry of the afflicted.
Psa
9:13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate
me, and lift me up from the gates of death;
Psa
9:14 that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of the
daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
Psa
9:15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the
net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Psa
9:16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The
wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Psa
9:17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations
that forget God.
Psa
9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of
the poor perish forever.
Psa
9:19 Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged
in your sight.
Psa
9:20 Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are
only men. Selah.
Psa
10:1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in
times of trouble?
Psa
10:2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in
the schemes that they devise.
Psa
10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the
greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
Psa
10:4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his
thoughts for God.
Psa
10:5 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your
laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at
them.
Psa
10:6 He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For
generations I shall have no trouble."
Psa
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his
tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psa
10:8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders
the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psa
10:9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to
catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his
net.
Psa
10:10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his
strength.
Psa
10:11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his
face. He will never see it."
Psa
10:12 Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the
helpless.
Psa
10:13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart,
"God won't call me into account?"
Psa
10:14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it
into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psa
10:15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his
wickedness until you find none.
Psa
10:16 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out
of his land.
Psa
10:17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will
prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psa
10:18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of
the earth may terrify no more.
Aug.
28
Psalm
11-15
Psa
11:1 In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee
as a bird to your mountain!"
Psa
11:2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows
on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in
heart.
Psa
11:3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Psa
11:4 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in
heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
Psa
11:5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves
violence his soul hates.
Psa
11:6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and
scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psa
11:7 For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright
shall see his face.
Psa
12:1 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail
from among the children of men.
Psa
12:2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips,
and with a double heart.
Psa
12:3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that
boasts,
Psa
12:4 who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips
are our own. Who is lord over us?"
Psa
12:5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the
groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I
will set him in safety from those who malign him."
Psa
12:6 The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined in a
clay furnace, purified seven times.
Psa
12:7 You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this
generation forever.
Psa
12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted
among the sons of men.
Psa
13:1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you
hide your face from me?
Psa
13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my
heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
Psa
13:3 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes,
lest I sleep in death;
Psa
13:4 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;"
Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
Psa
13:5 But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your
salvation.
Psa
13:6 I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me.
Psa
14:1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."
They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who
does good.
Psa
14:2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see
if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.
Psa
14:3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt.
There is none who does good, no, not one.
Psa
14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my
people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?
Psa
14:5 There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of
the righteous.
Psa
14:6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his
refuge.
Psa
14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When
Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
Psa
15:1 Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on
your holy hill?
Psa
15:2 He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth
in his heart;
Psa
15:3 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his
friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
Psa
15:4 In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who
fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't
change;
Psa
15:5 he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe
against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be
shaken.
Aug.
29
Psalm
16-19
Psa
16:1 Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
Psa
16:2 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart
from you I have no good thing."
Psa
16:3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent
ones in whom is all my delight.
Psa
16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another
god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their
names on my lips.
Psa
16:5 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
Psa
16:6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a
good inheritance.
Psa
16:7 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart
instructs me in the night seasons.
Psa
16:8 I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right
hand, I shall not be moved.
Psa
16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body
shall also dwell in safety.
Psa
16:10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you
allow your holy one to see corruption.
Psa
16:11 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is
fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
Psa
17:1 Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that
doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
Psa
17:2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes
look on equity.
Psa
17:3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You
have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall
not disobey.
Psa
17:4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept
myself from the ways of the violent.
Psa
17:5 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not
slipped.
Psa
17:6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your
ear to me. Hear my speech.
Psa
17:7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who
take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
Psa
17:8 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of
your wings,
Psa
17:9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround
me.
Psa
17:10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they
speak proudly.
Psa
17:11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes
to cast us down to the earth.
Psa
17:12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a
young lion lurking in secret places.
Psa
17:13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul
from the wicked by your sword;
Psa
17:14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose
portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones.
Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Psa
17:15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Psa
18:1 By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words
of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of
all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,>> I love
you, Yahweh, my strength.
Psa
18:2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my
rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower.
Psa
18:3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved
from my enemies.
Psa
18:4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
Psa
18:5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on
me.
Psa
18:6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He
heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his
ears.
Psa
18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the
mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
Psa
18:8 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his
mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
Psa
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was
under his feet.
Psa
18:10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of
the wind.
Psa
18:11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psa
18:12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
hailstones and coals of fire.
Psa
18:13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his
voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
Psa
18:14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great
lightning bolts, and routed them.
Psa
18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the
world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the
breath of your nostrils.
Psa
18:16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many
waters.
Psa
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me;
for they were too mighty for me.
Psa
18:18 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my
support.
Psa
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
Psa
18:20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Psa
18:21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
Psa
18:22 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his
statutes from me.
Psa
18:23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psa
18:24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.
Psa
18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the
perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
Psa
18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked
you will show yourself shrewd.
Psa
18:27 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes
you will bring down.
Psa
18:28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my
darkness.
Psa
18:29 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over
a wall.
Psa
18:30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psa
18:31 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
Psa
18:32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
Psa
18:33 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high
places.
Psa
18:34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of
bronze.
Psa
18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your
right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
Psa
18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
Psa
18:37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I
turn again until they are consumed.
Psa
18:38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to
rise. They shall fall under my feet.
Psa
18:39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have
subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psa
18:40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I
might cut off those who hate me.
Psa
18:41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he
didn't answer them.
Psa
18:42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast
them out as the mire of the streets.
Psa
18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You
have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known
shall serve me.
Psa
18:44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners
shall submit themselves to me.
Psa
18:45 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out
of their close places.
Psa
18:46 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my
salvation,
Psa
18:47 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues
peoples under me.
Psa
18:48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those
who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
Psa
18:49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the
nations, and will sing praises to your name.
Psa
18:50 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving
kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.
Psa
19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his
handiwork.
Psa
19:2 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night
they display knowledge.
Psa
19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not
heard.
Psa
19:4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to
the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
Psa
19:5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a
strong man rejoicing to run his course.
Psa
19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to
its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.
Psa
19:7 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony
is sure, making wise the simple.
Psa
19:8 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's
commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psa
19:9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's
ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
Psa
19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine
gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
Psa
19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there
is great reward.
Psa
19:12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Psa
19:13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them
not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be
blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Psa
19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be
acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Aug. 27
Romans
8
Rom 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ
Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit.
Rom 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from
the law of sin and of death.
Rom 8:3
For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for
sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
Rom 8:4
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the
things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the
things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is
life and peace;
Rom 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not
subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
Rom 8:8
Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
Rom 8:9
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the
Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit
of Christ, he is not his.
Rom
8:10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the
spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Rom
8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Rom
8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
after the flesh.
Rom
8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the
Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Rom
8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children
of God.
Rom
8:15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba!
Father!"
Rom
8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are
children of God;
Rom
8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with
Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified
with him.
Rom
8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward
us.
Rom
8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children
of God to be revealed.
Rom
8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will,
but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Rom
8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of
God.
Rom
8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain
together until now.
Rom
8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for
adoption, the redemption of our body.
Rom
8:24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope.
For who hopes for that which he sees?
Rom
8:25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with
patience.
Rom
8:26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we
don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes
intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.
Rom
8:27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind,
because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
Rom
8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who
love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Rom
8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brothers.
Rom
8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called,
those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Rom
8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us,
who can be against us?
Rom
8:32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Rom
8:33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God
who justifies.
Rom
8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who
was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also
makes intercession for us.
Rom
8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could
oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?
Rom
8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all
day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
Rom
8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us.
Rom
8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers,
Rom
8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
Aug. 28
Romans
9
Rom 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying
with me in the Holy Spirit,
Rom 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Rom 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my
brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
Rom 9:4
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants,
the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Rom 9:5
of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the
flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 9:6
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For
they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
Rom 9:7
Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children.
But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."
Rom 9:8
That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of
God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
Rom 9:9
For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will
come, and Sarah will have a son.
Rom
9:10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father
Isaac.
Rom
9:11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or
bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not
of works, but of him who calls,
Rom
9:12 it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."
Rom
9:13 Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
Rom
9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May
it never be!
Rom
9:15 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have
mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
Rom
9:16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of
God who has mercy.
Rom
9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose
I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and
that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
Rom
9:18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom
he desires.
Rom
9:19 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault?
For who withstands his will?"
Rom
9:20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the
thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like
this?"
Rom
9:21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump
to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
Rom
9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power
known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for
destruction,
Rom
9:23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels
of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
Rom
9:24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from
the Gentiles?
Rom
9:25 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,'
which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
Rom
9:26 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them,
'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the
living God.' "
Rom
9:27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the
children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who
will be saved;
Rom
9:28 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."
Rom
9:29 As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had
left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been
made like Gomorrah."
Rom
9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow
after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the
righteousness which is of faith;
Rom
9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't
arrive at the law of righteousness.
Rom
9:32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by
works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
Rom
9:33 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling
stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be
disappointed."
Aug. 29
Romans
10
Rom
10:1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel,
that they may be saved.
Rom
10:2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not
according to knowledge.
Rom
10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to
establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to
the righteousness of God.
Rom
10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to
everyone who believes.
Rom
10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The
one who does them will live by them."
Rom
10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't
say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring
Christ down);
Rom
10:7 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring
Christ up from the dead.)"
Rom
10:8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your
mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we
preach:
Rom
10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord,
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will
be saved.
Rom
10:10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with
the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Rom
10:11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not
be disappointed."
Rom
10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the
same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
Rom
10:13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be
saved."
Rom
10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed?
How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they
hear without a preacher?
Rom
10:15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is
written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the
Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"
Rom
10:16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says,
"Lord, who has believed our report?"
Rom
10:17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rom
10:18 But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their
sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the
world."
Rom
10:19 But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will
provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation
void of understanding I will make you angry."
Rom
10:20 Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who
didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."
Rom
10:21 But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out
my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
