Bible Reading
October 25
The World English Bible
Oct.
25
Song
of Solomon 5, 6
Son
5:1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered
my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I
have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes,
drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved
Son
5:2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my
beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my
undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the
dampness of the night."
Son
5:3 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have
washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
Son
5:4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My
heart pounded for him.
Son
5:5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
Son
5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away.
My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find
him. I called him, but he didn't answer.
Son
5:7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They
bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
Son
5:8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved,
that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends
Son
5:9 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest
among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that
you do so adjure us? Beloved
Son
5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.
Son
5:11 His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a
raven.
Son
5:12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with
milk, mounted like jewels.
Son
5:13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
Son
5:14 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is
like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
Son
5:15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine
gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
Son
5:16 His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is
my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. Friends
Son
6:1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has
your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved
Son
6:2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices,
to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Son
6:3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the
lilies,
Son
6:4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem,
awesome as an army with banners.
Son
6:5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your
hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.
Son
6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the
washing; of which every one has twins; none is bereaved among them.
Son
6:7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Son
6:8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without
number.
Son
6:9 My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only
daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters
saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and
they praised her.
Son
6:10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, beautiful as the
moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?
Son
6:11 I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of
the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were
in flower.
Son
6:12 Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people's
chariots. Friends
Son
6:13 Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at
you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the
dance of Mahanaim?
Oct.
25
1
Thessalonians 2
1Th
2:1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in
vain,
1Th
2:2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you
know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News
of God in much conflict.
1Th
2:3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in
deception.
1Th
2:4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with
the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests
our hearts.
1Th
2:5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery,
as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
1Th
2:6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others),
when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
1Th
2:7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes
her own children.
1Th
2:8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to
impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls,
because you had become very dear to us.
1Th
2:9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working
night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to
you the Good News of God.
1Th
2:10 You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and
blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
1Th
2:11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of
you, as a father does his own children,
1Th
2:12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you
into his own Kingdom and glory.
1Th
2:13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when
you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it
not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God,
which also works in you who believe.
1Th
2:14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God
which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same
things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
1Th
2:15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and
drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;
1Th
2:16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved;
to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the
uttermost.
1Th
2:17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in
presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great
desire,
1Th
2:18 because we wanted to come to you--indeed, I, Paul, once and
again--but Satan hindered us.
1Th
2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it
even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1Th
2:20 For you are our glory and our joy.
