Bible Reading for September 2 and 3
World English Bible
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!
Sept.
3
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.
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.
Sept. 3
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.
