Bible reading
September 15
World English Bible
Sept.
15
Psalms
71-73
Psa
71:1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
Psa
71:2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear
to me, and save me.
Psa
71:3 Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the
command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
Psa
71:4 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand
of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Psa
71:5 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.
Psa
71:6 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out
of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
Psa
71:7 I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
Psa
71:8 My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all
the day.
Psa
71:9 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my
strength fails.
Psa
71:10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul
conspire together,
Psa
71:11 saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for
no one will rescue him."
Psa
71:12 God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
Psa
71:13 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be
covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
Psa
71:14 But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
Psa
71:15 My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your
salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.
Psa
71:16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will
make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
Psa
71:17 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have
declared your wondrous works.
Psa
71:18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake
me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your
might to everyone who is to come.
Psa
71:19 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have
done great things. God, who is like you?
Psa
71:20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let
me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psa
71:21 Increase my honor, and comfort me again.
Psa
71:22 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my
God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
Psa
71:23 My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed,
sings praises to you!
Psa
71:24 My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day
long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to
harm me.
Psa
72:1 God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the
royal son.
Psa
72:2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor
with justice.
Psa
72:3 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills
bring the fruit of righteousness.
Psa
72:4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children
of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Psa
72:5 They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the
moon, throughout all generations.
Psa
72:6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that
water the earth.
Psa
72:7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of
peace, until the moon is no more.
Psa
72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to
the ends of the earth.
Psa
72:9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His
enemies shall lick the dust.
Psa
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Psa
72:11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall
serve him.
Psa
72:12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has
no helper.
Psa
72:13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the
souls of the needy.
Psa
72:14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their
blood will be precious in his sight.
Psa
72:15 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all
day long.
Psa
72:16 There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its
fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of
the field.
Psa
72:17 His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the
sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
Psa
72:18 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does
marvelous deeds.
Psa
72:19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be
filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
Psa
72:20 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
Psa
73:1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psa
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly
slipped.
Psa
73:3 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of
the wicked.
Psa
73:4 For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength
is firm.
Psa
73:5 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued
like other men.
Psa
73:6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence
covers them like a garment.
Psa
73:7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of
conceit.
Psa
73:8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten
oppression.
Psa
73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks
through the earth.
Psa
73:10 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up
waters of abundance.
Psa
73:11 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the
Most High?"
Psa
73:12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they
increase in riches.
Psa
73:13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands
in innocence,
Psa
73:14 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every
morning.
Psa
73:15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would
have betrayed the generation of your children.
Psa
73:16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
Psa
73:17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter
end.
Psa
73:18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to
destruction.
Psa
73:19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept
away with terrors.
Psa
73:20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you
will despise their fantasies.
Psa
73:21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
Psa
73:22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before
you.
Psa
73:23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my
right hand.
Psa
73:24 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me
to glory.
Psa
73:25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire
besides you.
Psa
73:26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my
heart and my portion forever.
Psa
73:27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have
destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
Psa
73:28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the
Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Sept.
15
1
Corinthians 11
1Co
11:1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1Co
11:2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things,
and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
1Co
11:3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ,
and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
1Co
11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,
dishonors his head.
1Co
11:5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled
dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were
shaved.
1Co
11:6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it
is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
1Co
11:7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he
is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
1Co
11:8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
1Co
11:9 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the
man.
1Co
11:10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head,
because of the angels.
1Co
11:11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor
the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
1Co
11:12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a
woman; but all things are from God.
1Co
11:13 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to
God unveiled?
1Co
11:14 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long
hair, it is a dishonor to him?
1Co
11:15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her
hair is given to her for a covering.
1Co
11:16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such
custom, neither do God's assemblies.
1Co
11:17 But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you
come together not for the better but for the worse.
1Co
11:18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I
hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
1Co
11:19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are
approved may be revealed among you.
1Co
11:20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the
Lord's supper that you eat.
1Co
11:21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is
hungry, and another is drunken.
1Co
11:22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you
despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What
shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
1Co
11:23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to
you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took
bread.
1Co
11:24 When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take,
eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of
me."
1Co
11:25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as
you drink, in memory of me."
1Co
11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you
proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
1Co
11:27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in
a manner unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the
blood of the Lord.
1Co
11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the
bread, and drink of the cup.
1Co
11:29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and
drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.
1Co
11:30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a
few sleep.
1Co
11:31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.
1Co
11:32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we
may not be condemned with the world.
1Co
11:33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait
one for another.
1Co
11:34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming
together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I
come.
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