Bible Reading
October 11
The World English Bible
Oct.
11
Proverbs
5-8
Pro
5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my
understanding:
Pro
5:2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve
knowledge.
Pro
5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother
than oil,
Pro
5:4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a
two-edged sword.
Pro
5:5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
Pro
5:6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked,
and she doesn't know it.
Pro
5:7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the
words of my mouth.
Pro
5:8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her
house,
Pro
5:9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel
one;
Pro
5:10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich
another man's house.
Pro
5:11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your
body are consumed,
Pro
5:12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart
despised reproof;
Pro
5:13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my
ear to those who instructed me!
Pro
5:14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the
gathered assembly."
Pro
5:15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your
own well.
Pro
5:16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water
in the public squares?
Pro
5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
Pro
5:18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Pro
5:19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you
at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
Pro
5:20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another?
Pro
5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines
all his paths.
Pro
5:22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin
hold him firmly.
Pro
5:23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his
folly, he will go astray.
Pro
6:1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you
have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
Pro
6:2 You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared
with the words of your mouth.
Pro
6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, seeing you have come
into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea
with your neighbor.
Pro
6:4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Pro
6:5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like
a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Pro
6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Pro
6:7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
Pro
6:8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the
harvest.
Pro
6:9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of
your sleep?
Pro
6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands
to sleep:
Pro
6:11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an
armed man.
Pro
6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a
perverse mouth;
Pro
6:13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions
with his fingers;
Pro
6:14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually,
who always sows discord.
Pro
6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken
suddenly, and that without remedy.
Pro
6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are
an abomination to him:
Pro
6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
Pro
6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in
running to mischief,
Pro
6:19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among
brothers.
Pro
6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your
mother's teaching.
Pro
6:21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Pro
6:22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch
over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Pro
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs
of instruction are the way of life,
Pro
6:24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the
wayward wife's tongue.
Pro
6:25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her
captivate you with her eyelids.
Pro
6:26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The
adulteress hunts for your precious life.
Pro
6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be
burned?
Pro
6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
Pro
6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches
her will not be unpunished.
Pro
6:30 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when
he is hungry:
Pro
6:31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give
all the wealth of his house.
Pro
6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
He who does it destroys his own soul.
Pro
6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped
away.
Pro
6:34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in
the day of vengeance.
Pro
6:35 He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content,
though you give many gifts.
Pro
7:1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
Pro
7:2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of
your eye.
Pro
7:3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your
heart.
Pro
7:4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding
your relative,
Pro
7:5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the
foreigner who flatters with her words.
Pro
7:6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
Pro
7:7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a
young man void of understanding,
Pro
7:8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to
her house,
Pro
7:9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the
night and in the darkness.
Pro
7:10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
and with crafty intent.
Pro
7:11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
Pro
7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at
every corner.
Pro
7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she
said to him:
Pro
7:14 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I
have paid my vows.
Pro
7:15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face,
and I have found you.
Pro
7:16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped
cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
Pro
7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Pro
7:18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's
solace ourselves with loving.
Pro
7:19 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
Pro
7:20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the
full moon."
Pro
7:21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering
of her lips, she seduced him.
Pro
7:22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as
a fool stepping into a noose.
Pro
7:23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to
the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
Pro
7:24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words
of my mouth.
Pro
7:25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her
paths,
Pro
7:26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a
mighty army.
Pro
7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of
death.
Pro
8:1 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?
Pro
8:2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she
stands.
Pro
8:3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors,
she cries aloud:
Pro
8:4 "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of
mankind.
Pro
8:5 You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an
understanding heart.
Pro
8:6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips
is for right things.
Pro
8:7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my
lips.
Pro
8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing
crooked or perverse in them.
Pro
8:9 They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who
find knowledge.
Pro
8:10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather
than choice gold.
Pro
8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be
desired can't be compared to it.
Pro
8:12 "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out
knowledge and discretion.
Pro
8:13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance,
the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Pro
8:14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and
power.
Pro
8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Pro
8:16 By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the
earth.
Pro
8:17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will
find me.
Pro
8:18 With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
Pro
8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield
than choice silver.
Pro
8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths
of justice;
Pro
8:21 That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their
treasuries.
Pro
8:22 "Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before
his deeds of old.
Pro
8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the
earth existed.
Pro
8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were
no springs abounding with water.
Pro
8:25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I
was brought forth;
Pro
8:26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the
beginning of the dust of the world.
Pro
8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a
circle on the surface of the deep,
Pro
8:28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the
deep became strong,
Pro
8:29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should
not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of
the earth;
Pro
8:30 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by
day, always rejoicing before him,
Pro
8:31 Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of
men.
Pro
8:32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are
those who keep my ways.
Pro
8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.
Pro
8:34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates,
waiting at my door posts.
Pro
8:35 For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from
Yahweh.
Pro
8:36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who
hate me love death."
Oct.
11
Ephesians
2
Eph
2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and
sins,
Eph
2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now
works in the children of disobedience;
Eph
2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh,
doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature
children of wrath, even as the rest.
Eph
2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he
loved us,
Eph
2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive
together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Eph
2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Eph
2:7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of
his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
Eph
2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Eph
2:9 not of works, that no one would boast.
Eph
2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Eph
2:11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh,
who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called
"circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);
Eph
2:12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from
the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the
promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Eph
2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near
in the blood of Christ.
Eph
2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the
middle wall of partition,
Eph
2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of
commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself
one new man of the two, making peace;
Eph
2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the
cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
Eph
2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those
who were near.
Eph
2:18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the
Father.
Eph
2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are
fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Eph
2:20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
Eph
2:21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy
temple in the Lord;
Eph
2:22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in
the Spirit.
