Bible Reading September 9, 10, 11 (WEB)
Sept.
9
Psalms
52-54
Psa
52:1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness
endures continually.
Psa
52:2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully.
Psa
52:3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the
truth. Selah.
Psa
52:4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
Psa
52:5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and
pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the
living. Selah.
Psa
52:6 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him,
saying,
Psa
52:7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself
in his wickedness."
Psa
52:8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I
trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
Psa
52:9 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I
will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your
saints.
Psa
53:1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one
who does good.
Psa
53:2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if
there are any who understood, who seek after God.
Psa
53:3 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy
together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Psa
53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people
as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
Psa
53:5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has
scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them
to shame, because God has rejected them.
Psa
53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When
God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
Psa
54:1 Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
Psa
54:2 Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
Psa
54:3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought
after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
Psa
54:4 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my
soul.
Psa
54:5 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your
truth.
Psa
54:6 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give
thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
Psa
54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen
triumph over my enemies.
Psalms
55-57
Psa
55:1 Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my
supplication.
Psa
55:2 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and
moan,
Psa
55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of
the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a
grudge against me.
Psa
55:4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death
have fallen on me.
Psa
55:5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has
overwhelmed me.
Psa
55:6 I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly
away, and be at rest.
Psa
55:7 Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the
wilderness." Selah.
Psa
55:8 "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and
storm."
Psa
55:9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have
seen violence and strife in the city.
Psa
55:10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse
are also within her.
Psa
55:11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't
depart from her streets.
Psa
55:12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have
endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up
against me, then I would have hid myself from him.
Psa
55:13 But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar
friend.
Psa
55:14 We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house
with company.
Psa
55:15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into
Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Psa
55:16 As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
Psa
55:17 Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He
will hear my voice.
Psa
55:18 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was
against me, although there are many who oppose me.
Psa
55:19 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them.
Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.
Psa
55:20 He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his
covenant.
Psa
55:21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His
words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Psa
55:22 Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will
never allow the righteous to be moved.
Psa
55:23 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of
destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half
their days, but I will trust in you.
Psa
56:1 Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day
long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Psa
56:2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are
many who fight proudly against me.
Psa
56:3 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
Psa
56:4 In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not
be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Psa
56:5 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are
against me for evil.
Psa
56:6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to
take my life.
Psa
56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples,
God.
Psa
56:8 You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle.
Aren't they in your book?
Psa
56:9 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know
this, that God is for me.
Psa
56:10 In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his
word.
Psa
56:11 I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man
do to me?
Psa
56:12 Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.
Psa
56:13 For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my
feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the
living.
Psa
57:1 Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes
refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge,
until disaster has passed.
Psa
57:2 I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests
for me.
Psa
57:3 He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who
is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his
truth.
Psa
57:4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire,
even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their
tongue a sharp sword.
Psa
57:5 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all
the earth!
Psa
57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down.
They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.
Psa
57:7 My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing,
yes, I will sing praises.
Psa
57:8 Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up
the dawn.
Psa
57:9 I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. I will sing
praises to you among the nations.
Psa
57:10 For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and
your truth to the skies.
Psa
57:11 Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all
the earth.
Psalms
58-60
Psa
58:1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge
blamelessly, you sons of men?
Psa
58:2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the
violence of your hands in the earth.
Psa
58:3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as
they are born, speaking lies.
Psa
58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra
that stops its ear,
Psa
58:5 which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how
skillful the charmer may be.
Psa
58:6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great
teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
Psa
58:7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the
bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
Psa
58:8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the
stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
Psa
58:9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep
away the green and the burning alike.
Psa
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He
shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
Psa
58:11 so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward
for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the
earth."
Psa
59:1 Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those
who rise up against me.
Psa
59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the
bloodthirsty men.
Psa
59:3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather
themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my
sin, Yahweh.
Psa
59:4 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up,
behold, and help me!
Psa
59:5 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to
punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.
Psa
59:6 They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the
city.
Psa
59:7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips,
"For," they say, "who hears us?"
Psa
59:8 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
Psa
59:9 Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.
Psa
59:10 My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will
let me look at my enemies in triumph.
Psa
59:11 Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your
power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
Psa
59:12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let
them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they
utter.
Psa
59:13 Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more.
Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth.
Selah.
Psa
59:14 At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go
around the city.
Psa
59:15 They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if
they aren't satisfied.
Psa
59:16 But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of
your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower,
a refuge in the day of my distress.
Psa
59:17 To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high
tower, the God of my mercy.
Psa
60:1 God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have
been angry. Restore us, again.
Psa
60:2 You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its
fractures, for it quakes.
Psa
60:3 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink
the wine that makes us stagger.
Psa
60:4 You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be
displayed because of the truth. Selah.
Psa
60:5 So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right
hand, and answer us.
Psa
60:6 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will
divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
Psa
60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the
defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
Psa
60:8 Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. I shout in
triumph over Philistia."
Psa
60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
Psa
60:10 Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with our
armies, God.
Psa
60:11 Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is
vain.
Psa
60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread
down our adversaries.
Sept. 9
1
Corinthians 5
1Co 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you,
and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles,
that one has his father's wife.
1Co 5:2
You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this
deed might be removed from among you.
1Co 5:3
For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit,
have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this
thing.
1Co 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together,
and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Co 5:5
are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1Co 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens
the whole lump?
1Co 5:7
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are
unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in
our place.
1Co 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the
yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
1Co 5:9 I
wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
1Co 5:10
yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with
the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would
have to leave the world.
1Co 5:11
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is
called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater,
or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with
such a person.
1Co 5:12
For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't
you judge those who are within?
1Co 5:13
But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man
from among yourselves."
1
Corinthians 6
1Co 6:1
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law
before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
1Co 6:2
Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world
is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Co 6:3
Don't you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that
pertain to this life?
1Co 6:4
If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set
them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
1Co 6:5 I
say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among
you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
1Co 6:6
But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
1Co 6:7
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have
lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather
be defrauded?
1Co 6:8
No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your
brothers.
1Co 6:9
Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom
of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
1Co 6:10
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor
extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
1Co 6:11
Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified.
But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the
Spirit of our God.
1Co 6:12
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are
expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not
be brought under the power of anything.
1Co 6:13
"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God
will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for
sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1Co 6:14
Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
1Co 6:15
Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then
take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute?
May it never be!
1Co 6:16
Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body?
For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."
1Co 6:17
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
1Co 6:18
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside
the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his
own body.
1Co 6:19
Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which
is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
1Co 6:20
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body
and in your spirit, which are God's.
1
Corinthians 7
1Co 7:1
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for
a man not to touch a woman.
1Co 7:2
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife,
and let each woman have her own husband.
1Co 7:3
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and
likewise also the wife to her husband.
1Co 7:4
The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband.
Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body,
but the wife.
1Co 7:5
Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that
you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together
again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of
self-control.
1Co 7:6
But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
1Co 7:7
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own
gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
1Co 7:8
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they
remain even as I am.
1Co 7:9
But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better
to marry than to burn.
1Co 7:10
But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not
leave her husband
1Co 7:11
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled
to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
1Co 7:12
But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an
unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not
leave her.
1Co 7:13
The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live
with her, let her not leave her husband.
1Co 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the
unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your
children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
1Co 7:15
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother
or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called
us in peace.
1Co 7:16
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how
do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
1Co 7:17
Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called
each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
1Co 7:18
Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become
uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not
be circumcised.
1Co 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the
keeping of the commandments of God.
1Co 7:20
Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
1Co 7:21
Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but
if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
1Co 7:22
For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's
free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's
bondservant.
1Co 7:23
You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.
1Co 7:24
Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in
that condition with God.
1Co 7:25
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I
give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be
trustworthy.
1Co 7:26
I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on
us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
1Co 7:27
Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a
wife? Don't seek a wife.
1Co 7:28
But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has
not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to
spare you.
1Co 7:29
But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both
those who have wives may be as though they had none;
1Co 7:30
and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those who
rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, as though
they didn't possess;
1Co 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the
mode of this world passes away.
1Co 7:32
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried
is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
1Co 7:33
but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how
he may please his wife.
1Co 7:34
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried
woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both
in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things
of the world--how she may please her husband.
1Co 7:35
This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for
that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord
without distraction.
1Co 7:36
But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his
virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so
requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.
1Co 7:37
But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but
has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.
1Co 7:38
So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and
he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.
1Co 7:39
A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the
husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires,
only in the Lord.
1Co 7:40
But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I
think that I also have God's Spirit.
