Bible Reading
August 26
The World English Bible
Aug.
26
Psalms
1-6
Psa
1:1 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the
wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of
scoffers;
Psa
1:2 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day
and night.
Psa
1:3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that
brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not
wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Psa
1:4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind
drives away.
Psa
1:5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Psa
1:6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the
wicked shall perish.
Psa
2:1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Psa
2:2 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel
together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
Psa
2:3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from
us."
Psa
2:4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them
in derision.
Psa
2:5 Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his
wrath:
Psa
2:6 "Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion."
Psa
2:7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my
son. Today I have become your father.
Psa
2:8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the
uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
Psa
2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in
pieces like a potter's vessel."
Psa
2:10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of
the earth.
Psa
2:11 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psa
2:12 Give sincere homage, lest he be angry, and you perish in the
way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who
take refuge in him.
Psa
3:1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who
rise up against me.
Psa
3:2 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for
him in God." Selah.
Psa
3:3 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one
who lifts up my head.
Psa
3:4 I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy
hill. Selah.
Psa
3:5 I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains
me.
Psa
3:6 I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set
themselves against me on every side.
Psa
3:7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my
enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
Psa
3:8 Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on your people.
Selah.
Psa
4:1 Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief
from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
Psa
4:2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into
dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Psa
4:3 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly:
Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
Psa
4:4 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed,
and be still. Selah.
Psa
4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
Psa
4:6 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the
light of your face shine on us.
Psa
4:7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain
and their new wine are increased.
Psa
4:8 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh
alone, make me live in safety.
Psa
5:1 Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.
Psa
5:2 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do
I pray.
Psa
5:3 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I
will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
Psa
5:4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't
live with you.
Psa
5:5 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers
of iniquity.
Psa
5:6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the
bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Psa
5:7 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will
come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence
of you.
Psa
5:8 Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies.
Make your way straight before my face.
Psa
5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is
destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their
tongue.
Psa
5:10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels;
Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they
have rebelled against you.
Psa
5:11 But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them
always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love
your name be joyful in you.
Psa
5:12 For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him
with favor as with a shield.
Psa
6:1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in
your wrath.
Psa
6:2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for
my bones are troubled.
Psa
6:3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?
Psa
6:4 Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving
kindness' sake.
Psa
6:5 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give
you thanks?
Psa
6:6 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I
drench my couch with my tears.
Psa
6:7 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all
my adversaries.
Psa
6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has
heard the voice of my weeping.
Psa
6:9 Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
Psa
6:10 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn
back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
Aug.
26
Romans
7
Rom
7:1 Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the
law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
Rom
7:2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband
while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the
law of the husband.
Rom
7:3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another
man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she
is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is
joined to another man.
Rom
7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law
through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to
him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to
God.
Rom
7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were
through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Rom
7:6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to
that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the
spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Rom
7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be!
However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I
wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You
shall not covet."
Rom
7:8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in
me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Rom
7:9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died.
Rom
7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for
death;
Rom
7:11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me,
and through it killed me.
Rom
7:12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and
righteous, and good.
Rom
7:13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never
be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me
through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might
become exceeding sinful.
Rom
7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold
under sin.
Rom
7:15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I
desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
Rom
7:16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law
that it is good.
Rom
7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Rom
7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good
thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that
which is good.
Rom
7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I
don't desire, that I practice.
Rom
7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do
it, but sin which dwells in me.
Rom
7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good,
evil is present.
Rom
7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
Rom
7:23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the
law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin
which is in my members.
Rom
7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body
of this death?
Rom
7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the
mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
