Bible Reading
September 2
The World English Bible
Sept.
2
Psalms
30-32
Psa
30:1 I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have
not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Psa
30:2 Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
Psa
30:3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept
me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psa
30:4 Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his
holy name.
Psa
30:5 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psa
30:6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be
moved."
Psa
30:7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand
strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
Psa
30:8 I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:
Psa
30:9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to
the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Psa
30:10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."
Psa
30:11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have
removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
Psa
30:12 To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be
silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Psa
31:1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
Psa
31:2 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong
rock, a house of defense to save me.
Psa
31:3 For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's
sake lead me and guide me.
Psa
31:4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
for you are my stronghold.
Psa
31:5 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God
of truth.
Psa
31:6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
Psa
31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you
have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
Psa
31:8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have
set my feet in a large place.
Psa
31:9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my
soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Psa
31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My
strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
Psa
31:11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly
contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who
saw me on the street fled from me.
Psa
31:12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like
broken pottery.
Psa
31:13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,
while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my
life.
Psa
31:14 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."
Psa
31:15 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my
enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Psa
31:16 Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your
loving kindness.
Psa
31:17 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you.
Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
Psa
31:18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous
insolently, with pride and contempt.
Psa
31:19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for
those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge
in you, before the sons of men!
Psa
31:20 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the
plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from
the strife of tongues.
Psa
31:21 Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving
kindness in a strong city.
Psa
31:22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before
your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions
when I cried to you.
Psa
31:23 Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the
faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
Psa
31:24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope
in Yahweh.
Psa
32:1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is
covered.
Psa
32:2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in
whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psa
32:3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning
all day long.
Psa
32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was
sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psa
32:5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I
said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the
iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psa
32:6 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when
you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall
not reach to him.
Psa
32:7 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You
will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psa
32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall
go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
Psa
32:9 Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no
understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they
will not come near to you.
Psa
32:10 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall
surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
Psa
32:11 Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy,
all you who are upright in heart!
Sept.
2
Romans
14
Rom
14:1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over
opinions.
Rom
14:2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats
only vegetables.
Rom
14:3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let
him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
Rom
14:4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he
stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to
make him stand.
Rom
14:5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems
every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
Rom
14:6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who
does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who
eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat,
to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
Rom
14:7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
Rom
14:8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to
the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
Rom
14:9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he
might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Rom
14:10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do
you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ.
Rom
14:11 For it is written, " 'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me
every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.' "
Rom
14:12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
Rom
14:13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this
rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an
occasion for falling.
Rom
14:14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is
unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be
unclean, to him it is unclean.
Rom
14:15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no
longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ
died.
Rom
14:16 Then don't let your good be slandered,
Rom
14:17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but
righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Rom
14:18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God
and approved by men.
Rom
14:19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and
things by which we may build one another up.
Rom
14:20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed
are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling
block by eating.
Rom
14:21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by
which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
Rom
14:22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he
who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
Rom
14:23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of
faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
