Bible Reading for September 4 - 6
World English Bible
Sept.
4
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.
5
Psalms
40-42
Psa
40:1 I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my
cry.
Psa
40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry
clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Psa
40:3 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many
shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
Psa
40:4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't
respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Psa
40:5 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have
done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared
back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than
can be numbered.
Psa
40:6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my
ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Psa
40:7 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me
in the book in the scroll.
Psa
40:8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my
heart."
Psa
40:9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great
assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
Psa
40:10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have
declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed
your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
Psa
40:11 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your
loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
Psa
40:12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have
overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than
the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
Psa
40:13 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
Psa
40:14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek
after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought
to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
Psa
40:15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me,
"Aha! Aha!"
Psa
40:16 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let
such as love your salvation say continually, "Let Yahweh be
exalted!"
Psa
40:17 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are
my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.
Psa
41:1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him
in the day of evil.
Psa
41:2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be
blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of
his enemies.
Psa
41:3 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from
his bed of illness.
Psa
41:4 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have
sinned against you."
Psa
41:5 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and
his name perish?"
Psa
41:6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers
iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
Psa
41:7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the
worst for me.
Psa
41:8 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
Psa
41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread
with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
Psa
41:10 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may
repay them.
Psa
41:11 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy
doesn't triumph over me.
Psa
41:12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your
presence forever.
Psa
41:13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to
everlasting! Amen and amen.
Psa
42:1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after
you, God.
Psa
42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come
and appear before God?
Psa
42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they
continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
Psa
42:4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I
used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the
voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
Psa
42:5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within
me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of
his presence.
Psa
42:6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember
you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill
Mizar.
Psa
42:7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your
waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psa
42:8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the
night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
Psa
42:9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why
do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
Psa
42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while
they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
Psa
42:11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within
me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my
countenance, and my God.
Sept.
6
Psalms
43-45
Psa
43:1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly
nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Psa
43:2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psa
43:3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let
them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
Psa
43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I
will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Psa
43:5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within
me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper,
and my God.
Psa
44:1 We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us,
what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
Psa
44:2 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them.
You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
Psa
44:3 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your
arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
Psa
44:4 You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
Psa
44:5 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your
name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
Psa
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Psa
44:7 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed
those who hate us.
Psa
44:8 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks
to your name forever. Selah.
Psa
44:9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't
go out with our armies.
Psa
44:10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us
take spoil for themselves.
Psa
44:11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us
among the nations.
Psa
44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from
their sale.
Psa
44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a
derision to those who are around us.
Psa
44:14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head
among the peoples.
Psa
44:15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my
face,
Psa
44:16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses,
because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psa
44:17 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you,
Neither have we been false to your covenant.
Psa
44:18 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed
from your path,
Psa
44:19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and
covered us with the shadow of death.
Psa
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our
hands to a strange god;
Psa
44:21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the
heart.
Psa
44:22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded
as sheep for the slaughter.
Psa
44:23 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us
forever.
Psa
44:24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our
oppression?
Psa
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves to
the earth.
Psa
44:26 Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.
Psa
45:1 My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for
the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
Psa
45:2 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has
anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psa
45:3 Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and
your majesty.
Psa
45:4 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth,
humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome
deeds.
Psa
45:5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows
in the heart of the king's enemies.
Psa
45:6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is
the scepter of your kingdom.
Psa
45:7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore
God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your
fellows.
Psa
45:8 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of
ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
Psa
45:9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right
hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
Psa
45:10 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own
people, and also your father's house.
Psa
45:11 So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your
lord.
Psa
45:12 The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the
people entreat your favor.
Psa
45:13 The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is
interwoven with gold.
Psa
45:14 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins,
her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
Psa
45:15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall
enter into the king's palace.
Psa
45:16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make
them princes in all the earth.
Psa
45:17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.
Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.
Sept. 4
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.
Sept. 5
1
Corinthians 1
1Co 1:1
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of
God, and our brother Sosthenes,
1Co 1:2
to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified
in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
1Co 1:3
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
1Co 1:4
I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was
given you in Christ Jesus;
1Co 1:5
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all
knowledge;
1Co 1:6
even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1Co 1:7
so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of
our Lord Jesus Christ;
1Co 1:8
who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 1:9
God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of
his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
1Co
1:10 Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus
Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no
divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same
mind and in the same judgment.
1Co
1:11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by
those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions
among you.
1Co
1:12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow
Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas,"
and, "I follow Christ."
1Co
1:13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you
baptized into the name of Paul?
1Co
1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and
Gaius,
1Co
1:15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own
name.
1Co
1:16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I
don't know whether I baptized any other.)
1Co
1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good
News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be
made void.
1Co
1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are
dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
1Co
1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
1Co
1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of
this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1Co
1:21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its
wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the
foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
1Co
1:22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
1Co
1:23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and
foolishness to Greeks,
1Co
1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is
the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1Co
1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the
weakness of God is stronger than men.
1Co
1:26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise
according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
1Co
1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put
to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world,
that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
1Co
1:28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things
that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring
to nothing the things that are:
1Co
1:29 that no flesh should boast before God.
1Co
1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom
from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co
1:31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him
boast in the Lord."
Sept. 6
1
Corinthians 2
1Co 2:1
When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of
speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
1Co 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus
Christ, and him crucified.
1Co 2:3
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
1Co 2:4
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1Co 2:5
that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God.
1Co 2:6
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a
wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are
coming to nothing.
1Co 2:7
But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been
hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
1Co 2:8
which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known
it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.
1Co 2:9
But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an
ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God
has prepared for those who love him."
1Co
2:10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit
searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
1Co
2:11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit
of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God,
except God's Spirit.
1Co
2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely
given to us by God.
1Co
2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual things.
1Co
2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit,
for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.
1Co
2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is
judged by no one.
1Co
2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should
instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.
