Bible Reading September 2, 3, 4 (WEB)
Sept.
2
Psalms
30-32
Psa
30:1 I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have
not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Psa
30:2 Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
Psa
30:3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept
me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psa
30:4 Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his
holy name.
Psa
30:5 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psa
30:6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be
moved."
Psa
30:7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand
strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
Psa
30:8 I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:
Psa
30:9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to
the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Psa
30:10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."
Psa
30:11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have
removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
Psa
30:12 To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be
silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Psa
31:1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
Psa
31:2 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong
rock, a house of defense to save me.
Psa
31:3 For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's
sake lead me and guide me.
Psa
31:4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
for you are my stronghold.
Psa
31:5 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God
of truth.
Psa
31:6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
Psa
31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you
have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
Psa
31:8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have
set my feet in a large place.
Psa
31:9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my
soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Psa
31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My
strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
Psa
31:11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly
contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who
saw me on the street fled from me.
Psa
31:12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like
broken pottery.
Psa
31:13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,
while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my
life.
Psa
31:14 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."
Psa
31:15 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my
enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Psa
31:16 Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your
loving kindness.
Psa
31:17 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you.
Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
Psa
31:18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous
insolently, with pride and contempt.
Psa
31:19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for
those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge
in you, before the sons of men!
Psa
31:20 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the
plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from
the strife of tongues.
Psa
31:21 Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving
kindness in a strong city.
Psa
31:22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before
your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions
when I cried to you.
Psa
31:23 Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the
faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
Psa
31:24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope
in Yahweh.
Psa
32:1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is
covered.
Psa
32:2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in
whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psa
32:3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning
all day long.
Psa
32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was
sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psa
32:5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I
said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the
iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psa
32:6 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when
you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall
not reach to him.
Psa
32:7 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You
will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psa
32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall
go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
Psa
32:9 Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no
understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they
will not come near to you.
Psa
32:10 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall
surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
Psa
32:11 Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy,
all you who are upright in heart!
Psalms
33-35
Psa
33:1 Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the
upright.
Psa
33:2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with
the harp of ten strings.
Psa
33:3 Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
Psa
33:4 For the word of Yahweh is right. All his work is done in
faithfulness.
Psa
33:5 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the
loving kindness of Yahweh.
Psa
33:6 By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the
breath of his mouth.
Psa
33:7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up
the deeps in storehouses.
Psa
33:8 Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of him.
Psa
33:9 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
Psa
33:10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes
the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Psa
33:11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his
heart to all generations.
Psa
33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he
has chosen for his own inheritance.
Psa
33:13 Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
Psa
33:14 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the
inhabitants of the earth,
Psa
33:15 he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of
their works.
Psa
33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty
man is not delivered by great strength.
Psa
33:17 A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver
any by his great power.
Psa
33:18 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who
hope in his loving kindness;
Psa
33:19 to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in
famine.
Psa
33:20 Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
Psa
33:21 For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his
holy name.
Psa
33:22 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped
in you.
Psa
34:1 I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in
my mouth.
Psa
34:2 My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and
be glad.
Psa
34:3 Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
Psa
34:4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all
my fears.
Psa
34:5 They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never
be covered with shame.
Psa
34:6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of
all his troubles.
Psa
34:7 The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and
delivers them.
Psa
34:8 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who
takes refuge in him.
Psa
34:9 Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those
who fear him.
Psa
34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek
Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
Psa
34:11 Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of
Yahweh.
Psa
34:12 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he
may see good?
Psa
34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
Psa
34:14 Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
Psa
34:15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to
their cry.
Psa
34:16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the
memory of them from the earth.
Psa
34:17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of
all their troubles.
Psa
34:18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves
those who have a crushed spirit.
Psa
34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers
him out of them all.
Psa
34:20 He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
Psa
34:21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall
be condemned.
Psa
34:22 Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who
take refuge in him shall be condemned.
Psa
35:1 Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against
those who fight against me.
Psa
35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
Psa
35:3 Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul,
"I am your salvation."
Psa
35:4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to
dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
Psa
35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving
them on.
Psa
35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing
them.
Psa
35:7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me.
Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Psa
35:8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has
hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
Psa
35:9 My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his
salvation.
Psa
35:10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who
delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor
and the needy from him who robs him?"
Psa
35:11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I
don't know about.
Psa
35:12 They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
Psa
35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own
bosom.
Psa
35:14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my
brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
Psa
35:15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and
I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
Psa
35:16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth
at me.
Psa
35:17 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their
destruction, my precious life from the lions.
Psa
35:18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise
you among many people.
Psa
35:19 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Psa
35:20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words
against those who are quiet in the land.
Psa
35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha!
Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
Psa
35:22 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be
far from me.
Psa
35:23 Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for
me!
Psa
35:24 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness.
Don't let them gloat over me.
Psa
35:25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way
we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him
up!"
Psa
35:26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice
at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who
magnify themselves against me.
Psa
35:27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous
cause. Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who
has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"
Psa
35:28 My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your
praise all day long.
Psalms
36-39
Psa
36:1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the
wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."
Psa
36:2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and
hate his sin.
Psa
36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased
to be wise and to do good.
Psa
36:4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is
not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
Psa
36:5 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your
faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Psa
36:6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments
are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
Psa
36:7 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men
take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
Psa
36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your
house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Psa
36:9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see
light.
Psa
36:10 Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your
righteousness to the upright in heart.
Psa
36:11 Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the
hand of the wicked drive me away.
Psa
36:12 There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust
down, and shall not be able to rise.
Psa
37:1 Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against
those who work unrighteousness.
Psa
37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like
the green herb.
Psa
37:3 Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe
pasture.
Psa
37:4 Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the
desires of your heart.
Psa
37:5 Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do
this:
Psa
37:6 he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, and your
justice as the noon day sun.
Psa
37:7 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because
of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked
plots happen.
Psa
37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only
to evildoing.
Psa
37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh
shall inherit the land.
Psa
37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes,
though you look for his place, he isn't there.
Psa
37:11 But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psa
37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his
teeth.
Psa
37:13 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is
coming.
Psa
37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the
way.
Psa
37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall
be broken.
Psa
37:16 Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance
of many wicked.
Psa
37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds
the righteous.
Psa
37:18 Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall
be forever.
Psa
37:19 They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the
days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psa
37:20 But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be
like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.
Psa
37:21 The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give
generously.
Psa
37:22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those
who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
Psa
37:23 A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his
way.
Psa
37:24 Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up
with his hand.
Psa
37:25 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
Psa
37:26 All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is
blessed.
Psa
37:27 Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
Psa
37:28 For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. They
are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut
off.
Psa
37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.
Psa
37:30 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks
justice.
Psa
37:31 The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall
slide.
Psa
37:32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
Psa
37:33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he
is judged.
Psa
37:34 Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to
inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Psa
37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like
a green tree in its native soil.
Psa
37:36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him,
but he could not be found.
Psa
37:37 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a
future for the man of peace.
Psa
37:38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The
future of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psa
37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their
stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psa
37:40 Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the
wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
Psa
38:1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in
your hot displeasure.
Psa
38:2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Psa
38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,
neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psa
38:4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden,
they are too heavy for me.
Psa
38:5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
Psa
38:6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psa
38:7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in
my flesh.
Psa
38:8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of
the anguish of my heart.
Psa
38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden
from you.
Psa
38:10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my
eyes, it has also left me.
Psa
38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My
kinsmen stand far away.
Psa
38:12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my
hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Psa
38:13 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who
doesn't open his mouth.
Psa
38:14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no
reproofs.
Psa
38:15 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.
Psa
38:16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt
themselves over me when my foot slips."
Psa
38:17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
Psa
38:18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
Psa
38:19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me
without reason are numerous.
Psa
38:20 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me,
because I follow what is good.
Psa
38:21 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.
Psa
38:22 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
Psa
39:1 I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my
tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before
me."
Psa
39:2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My
sorrow was stirred.
Psa
39:3 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned:
I spoke with my tongue:
Psa
39:4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days.
Let me know how frail I am.
Psa
39:5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as
nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Psa
39:6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy
themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
Psa
39:7 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Psa
39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the
reproach of the foolish.
Psa
39:9 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.
Psa
39:10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of
your hand.
Psa
39:11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his
wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
Psa
39:12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be
silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all
my fathers were.
Psa
39:13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away,
and exist no more."
Sept. 2
Romans 14
Rom 14:1
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over
opinions.
Rom 14:2
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only
vegetables.
Rom 14:3
Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who
doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
Rom 14:4
Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or
falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him
stand.
Rom 14:5
One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day
alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
Rom 14:6
He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not
observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats,
eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the
Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
Rom 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
Rom 14:8
For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the
Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
Rom 14:9
For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be
Lord of both the dead and the living.
Rom 14:10
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you
despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat
of Christ.
Rom 14:11
For it is written, " 'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every
knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.' "
Rom 14:12
So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
Rom 14:13
Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this
rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an
occasion for falling.
Rom 14:14
I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean
of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean,
to him it is unclean.
Rom 14:15
Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in
love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
Rom 14:16
Then don't let your good be slandered,
Rom 14:17
for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness,
peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Rom 14:18
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and
approved by men.
Rom 14:19
So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things
by which we may build one another up.
Rom 14:20
Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are
clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block
by eating.
Rom 14:21
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your
brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
Rom 14:22
Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who
doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
Rom 14:23
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith;
and whatever is not of faith is sin.
Romans 15
Rom 15:1
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and
not to please ourselves.
Rom 15:2
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be
building him up.
Rom 15:3
For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The
reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
Rom 15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our
learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the
Scriptures we might have hope.
Rom 15:5
Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the
same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
Rom 15:6
that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:7
Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to
the glory of God.
Rom 15:8
Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for
the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the
fathers,
Rom 15:9
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is
written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the
Gentiles, and sing to your name."
Rom 15:10
Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."
Rom 15:11
Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples
praise him."
Rom 15:12
Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who
arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."
Rom 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Rom 15:14
I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you
yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also
to admonish others.
Rom 15:15
But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because
of the grace that was given to me by God,
Rom 15:16
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving
as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the
Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Rom 15:17
I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to
God.
Rom 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ
worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and
deed,
Rom 15:19
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so
that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully
preached the Good News of Christ;
Rom 15:20
yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was
already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.
Rom 15:21
But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him
came. They who haven't heard will understand."
Rom 15:22
Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,
Rom 15:23
but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having
these many years a longing to come to you,
Rom 15:24
whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see
you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first
I may enjoy your company for a while.
Rom 15:25
But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
Rom 15:26
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a
certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at
Jerusalem.
Rom 15:27
Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For
if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things,
they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
Rom 15:28
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this
fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
Rom 15:29
I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the
blessing of the Good News of Christ.
Rom 15:30
Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of
the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God
for me,
Rom 15:31
that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and
that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the
saints;
Rom 15:32
that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together
with you, find rest.
Rom 15:33
Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Romans 16
Rom 16:1
I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly
that is at Cenchreae,
Rom 16:2
that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and
that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she
herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
Rom 16:3
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:4
who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give
thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
Rom 16:5
Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my
beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
Rom 16:6
Greet Mary, who labored much for us.
Rom 16:7
Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners,
who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before
me.
Rom 16:8
Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.
Rom 16:9
Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
Rom 16:10
Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the
household of Aristobulus.
Rom 16:11
Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus,
who are in the Lord.
Rom 16:12
Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis,
the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
Rom 16:13
Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Rom 16:14
Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers
who are with them.
Rom 16:15
Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and
all the saints who are with them.
Rom 16:16
Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet
you.
Rom 16:17
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the
divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which
you learned, and turn away from them.
Rom 16:18
For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their
own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive
the hearts of the innocent.
Rom 16:19
For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over
you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but
innocent in that which is evil.
Rom 16:20
And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Rom 16:21
Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and
Sosipater, my relatives.
Rom 16:22
I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.
Rom 16:23
Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus,
the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
Rom 16:24
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen.
Rom 16:25
Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and
the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,
Rom 16:26
but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according
to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of
faith to all the nations;
Rom 16:27
to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory
forever! Amen.
