Bible Reading
September 16
The World English Bible
Sept.
16
Psalms
74-76
Psa
74:1 God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger
smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psa
74:2 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which
you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in
which you have lived.
Psa
74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the
enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psa
74:4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly.
They have set up their standards as signs.
Psa
74:5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket
of trees.
Psa
74:6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and
hammers.
Psa
74:7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have
profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
Psa
74:8 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely."
They have burned up all the places in the land where God was
worshiped.
Psa
74:9 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet,
neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Psa
74:10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy
blaspheme your name forever?
Psa
74:11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it
out of your pocket and consume them!
Psa
74:12 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
the earth.
Psa
74:13 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of
the sea monsters in the waters.
Psa
74:14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as
food to people and desert creatures.
Psa
74:15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
Psa
74:16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared
the light and the sun.
Psa
74:17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made
summer and winter.
Psa
74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish
people have blasphemed your name.
Psa
74:19 Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't
forget the life of your poor forever.
Psa
74:20 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark
places of the earth.
Psa
74:21 Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy
praise your name.
Psa
74:22 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man
mocks you all day.
Psa
74:23 Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of
those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Psa
75:1 We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is
near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
Psa
75:2 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
Psa
75:3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its
pillars. Selah.
Psa
75:4 I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the
wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.
Psa
75:5 Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff
neck."
Psa
75:6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the
south, comes exaltation.
Psa
75:7 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
Psa
75:8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine
mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth
drink and drink it to its very dregs.
Psa
75:9 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God
of Jacob.
Psa
75:10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of
the righteous shall be lifted up.
Psa
76:1 In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
Psa
76:2 His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
Psa
76:3 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and
the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
Psa
76:4 Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
Psa
76:5 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
Psa
76:6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast
into a deep sleep.
Psa
76:7 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight
when you are angry?
Psa
76:8 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was
silent,
Psa
76:9 when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of
the earth. Selah.
Psa
76:10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your
wrath are restrained.
Psa
76:11 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his
neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
Psa
76:12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the
kings of the earth.
Sept.
16
1
Corinthians 12
1Co
12:1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to
be ignorant.
1Co
12:2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those
mute idols, however you might be led.
1Co
12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's
Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus
is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.
1Co
12:4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1Co
12:5 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.
1Co
12:6 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who
works all things in all.
1Co
12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for
the profit of all.
1Co
12:8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and
to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
1Co
12:9 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of
healings, by the same Spirit;
1Co
12:10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy;
and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of
languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.
1Co
12:11 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these,
distributing to each one separately as he desires.
1Co
12:12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the
members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
1Co
12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether
Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink
into one Spirit.
1Co
12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
1Co
12:15 If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not
part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body.
1Co
12:16 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not
part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.
1Co
12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If
the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
1Co
12:18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the
body, just as he desired.
1Co
12:19 If they were all one member, where would the body be?
1Co
12:20 But now they are many members, but one body.
1Co
12:21 The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you,"
or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."
1Co
12:22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be
weaker are necessary.
1Co
12:23 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable,
on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts
have more abundant propriety;
1Co
12:24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God
composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the
inferior part,
1Co
12:25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the
members should have the same care for one another.
1Co
12:26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or
when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
1Co
12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
1Co
12:28 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second
prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of
healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
1Co
12:29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all
miracle workers?
1Co
12:30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various
languages? Do all interpret?
1Co
12:31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most
excellent way to you.
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