Bible Reading for August 26 and 27
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.
27
Psalms
7-10
Psa
7:1 Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who
pursue me, and deliver me,
Psa
7:2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces,
while there is none to deliver.
Psa
7:3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my
hands,
Psa
7:4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes,
if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
Psa
7:5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him
tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
Psa
7:6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage
of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
Psa
7:7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them
on high.
Psa
7:8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh,
according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
Psa
7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but
establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the
righteous God.
Psa
7:10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
Psa
7:11 God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every
day.
Psa
7:12 If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent
and strung his bow.
Psa
7:13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He
makes ready his flaming arrows.
Psa
7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived
mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Psa
7:15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
Psa
7:16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His
violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
Psa
7:17 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
Psa
8:1 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth,
who has set your glory above the heavens!
Psa
8:2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established
strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the
enemy and the avenger.
Psa
8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon
and the stars, which you have ordained;
Psa
8:4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that
you care for him?
Psa
8:5 For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him
with glory and honor.
Psa
8:6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put
all things under his feet:
Psa
8:7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,
Psa
8:8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes
through the paths of the seas.
Psa
8:9 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psa
9:1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of
all your marvelous works.
Psa
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your
name, O Most High.
Psa
9:3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your
presence.
Psa
9:4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne
judging righteously.
Psa
9:5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You
have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Psa
9:6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the
cities which you have overthrown has perished.
Psa
9:7 But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for
judgment.
Psa
9:8 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer
judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
Psa
9:9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower
in times of trouble.
Psa
9:10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you,
Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Psa
9:11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among
the people what he has done.
Psa
9:12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the
cry of the afflicted.
Psa
9:13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate
me, and lift me up from the gates of death;
Psa
9:14 that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of the
daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
Psa
9:15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the
net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Psa
9:16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The
wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Psa
9:17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations
that forget God.
Psa
9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of
the poor perish forever.
Psa
9:19 Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged
in your sight.
Psa
9:20 Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are
only men. Selah.
Psa
10:1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in
times of trouble?
Psa
10:2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in
the schemes that they devise.
Psa
10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the
greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
Psa
10:4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his
thoughts for God.
Psa
10:5 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your
laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at
them.
Psa
10:6 He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For
generations I shall have no trouble."
Psa
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his
tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psa
10:8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders
the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psa
10:9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to
catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his
net.
Psa
10:10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his
strength.
Psa
10:11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his
face. He will never see it."
Psa
10:12 Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the
helpless.
Psa
10:13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart,
"God won't call me into account?"
Psa
10:14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it
into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psa
10:15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his
wickedness until you find none.
Psa
10:16 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out
of his land.
Psa
10:17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will
prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psa
10:18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of
the earth may terrify no more.
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.
Aug. 27
Romans
8
Rom 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ
Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit.
Rom 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from
the law of sin and of death.
Rom 8:3
For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for
sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
Rom 8:4
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the
things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the
things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is
life and peace;
Rom 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not
subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
Rom 8:8
Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
Rom 8:9
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the
Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit
of Christ, he is not his.
Rom
8:10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the
spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Rom
8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Rom
8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
after the flesh.
Rom
8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the
Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Rom
8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children
of God.
Rom
8:15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba!
Father!"
Rom
8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are
children of God;
Rom
8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with
Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified
with him.
Rom
8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward
us.
Rom
8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children
of God to be revealed.
Rom
8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will,
but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Rom
8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of
God.
Rom
8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain
together until now.
Rom
8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for
adoption, the redemption of our body.
Rom
8:24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope.
For who hopes for that which he sees?
Rom
8:25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with
patience.
Rom
8:26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we
don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes
intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.
Rom
8:27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind,
because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
Rom
8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who
love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Rom
8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brothers.
Rom
8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called,
those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Rom
8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us,
who can be against us?
Rom
8:32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Rom
8:33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God
who justifies.
Rom
8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who
was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also
makes intercession for us.
Rom
8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could
oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?
Rom
8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all
day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
Rom
8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us.
Rom
8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers,
Rom
8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
