Bible Reading for September 21 and 22
World English Bible
Sept.
21
Psalms
89-91
Psa
89:1 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my
mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
Psa
89:2 I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You
established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."
Psa
89:3 "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn
to David, my servant,
Psa
89:4 'I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne
to all generations.' " Selah.
Psa
89:5 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness
also in the assembly of the holy ones.
Psa
89:6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the
sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
Psa
89:7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be
feared above all those who are around him?
Psa
89:8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your
faithfulness is around you.
Psa
89:9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm
them.
Psa
89:10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You
have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
Psa
89:11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and
its fullness. You have founded them.
Psa
89:12 The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and
Hermon rejoice in your name.
Psa
89:13 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right
hand is exalted.
Psa
89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
Psa
89:15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in
the light of your presence, Yahweh.
Psa
89:16 In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they
are exalted.
Psa
89:17 For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our
horn will be exalted.
Psa
89:18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of
Israel.
Psa
89:19 Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I
have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man
from the people.
Psa
89:20 I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my
holy oil,
Psa
89:21 with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also
strengthen him.
Psa
89:22 No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
Psa
89:23 I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those
who hate him.
Psa
89:24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
Psa
89:25 I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the
rivers.
Psa
89:26 He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock
of my salvation!'
Psa
89:27 I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings
of the earth.
Psa
89:28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My
covenant will stand firm with him.
Psa
89:29 I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as
the days of heaven.
Psa
89:30 If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my
ordinances;
Psa
89:31 if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments;
Psa
89:32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity
with stripes.
Psa
89:33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
Psa
89:34 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have
uttered.
Psa
89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
Psa
89:36 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before
me.
Psa
89:37 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful
witness in the sky." Selah.
Psa
89:38 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with
your anointed.
Psa
89:39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have
defiled his crown in the dust.
Psa
89:40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his
strongholds to ruin.
Psa
89:41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to
his neighbors.
Psa
89:42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have
made all of his enemies rejoice.
Psa
89:43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't
supported him in battle.
Psa
89:44 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the
ground.
Psa
89:45 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him
with shame. Selah.
Psa
89:46 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your
wrath burn like fire?
Psa
89:47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you
created all the children of men!
Psa
89:48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall
deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Psa
89:49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore
to David in your faithfulness?
Psa
89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in
my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
Psa
89:51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they
have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
Psa
89:52 Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen.
Psa
90:1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
Psa
90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed
the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you
are God.
Psa
90:3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children
of men."
Psa
90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when
it is past, like a watch in the night.
Psa
90:5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout
like new grass.
Psa
90:6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is
withered and dry.
Psa
90:7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your
wrath.
Psa
90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the
light of your presence.
Psa
90:9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our
years to an end as a sigh.
Psa
90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of
strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for
it passes quickly, and we fly away.
Psa
90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the
fear that is due to you?
Psa
90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of
wisdom.
Psa
90:13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
Psa
90:14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we
may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psa
90:15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as
many years as we have seen evil.
Psa
90:16 Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their
children.
Psa
90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work
of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
Psa
91:1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in
the shadow of the Almighty.
Psa
91:2 I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; my
God, in whom I trust."
Psa
91:3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from
the deadly pestilence.
Psa
91:4 He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will
take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
Psa
91:5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the
arrow that flies by day;
Psa
91:6 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the
destruction that wastes at noonday.
Psa
91:7 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your
right hand; but it will not come near you.
Psa
91:8 You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of
the wicked.
Psa
91:9 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High
your dwelling place,
Psa
91:10 no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come
near your dwelling.
Psa
91:11 For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in
all your ways.
Psa
91:12 They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash
your foot against a stone.
Psa
91:13 You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the
young lion and the serpent underfoot.
Psa
91:14 "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will
deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Psa
91:15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him
in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Psa
91:16 I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation."
Sept.
22
Psalms
92-94
Psa
92:1 It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to
your name, Most High;
Psa
92:2 to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your
faithfulness every night,
Psa
92:3 with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody
of the lyre.
Psa
92:4 For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will
triumph in the works of your hands.
Psa
92:5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
Psa
92:6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand
this:
Psa
92:7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers
flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Psa
92:8 But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.
Psa
92:9 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies
shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.
Psa
92:10 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am
anointed with fresh oil.
Psa
92:11 My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the
wicked enemies who rise up against me.
Psa
92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow
like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psa
92:13 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our
God's courts.
Psa
92:14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be
full of sap and green,
Psa
92:15 to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no
unrighteousness in him.
Psa
93:1 Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with
strength. The world also is established. It can't be moved.
Psa
93:2 Your throne is established from long ago. You are from
everlasting.
Psa
93:3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up
their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
Psa
93:4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the
sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
Psa
93:5 Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh,
forevermore.
Psa
94:1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom
vengeance belongs, shine forth.
Psa
94:2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they
deserve.
Psa
94:3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked
triumph?
Psa
94:4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
Psa
94:5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your
heritage.
Psa
94:6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
Psa
94:7 They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God
consider."
Psa
94:8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will
you be wise?
Psa
94:9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye,
won't he see?
Psa
94:10 He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who
teaches man knows.
Psa
94:11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
Psa
94:12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of
your law;
Psa
94:13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until
the pit is dug for the wicked.
Psa
94:14 For Yahweh won't reject his people, neither will he forsake
his inheritance.
Psa
94:15 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in
heart shall follow it.
Psa
94:16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up
for me against the evildoers?
Psa
94:17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived
in silence.
Psa
94:18 When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving
kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
Psa
94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts
delight my soul.
Psa
94:20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which
brings about mischief by statute?
Psa
94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the
righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psa
94:22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my
refuge.
Psa
94:23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them
off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
Sept.
21
2
Corinthians 1
2Co 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and
Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with
all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2Co 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
2Co 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of mercies and God of all comfort;
2Co 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to
comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2Co 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort
also abounds through Christ.
2Co 1:6
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we
are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the
patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
2Co 1:7
Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers
of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
2Co 1:8
For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our
affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down
exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of
life.
2Co 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves,
that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the
dead,
2Co
1:10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on
whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
2Co
1:11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication;
that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be
given by many persons on your behalf.
2Co
1:12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that
in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the
grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly
toward you.
2Co
1:13 For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even
acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;
2Co
1:14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting,
even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
2Co
1:15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that
you might have a second benefit;
2Co
1:16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to
come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
2Co
1:17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or
the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that
with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No,
no?"
2Co
1:18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes
and no."
2Co
1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by
us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but
in him is "Yes."
2Co
1:20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes."
Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of
God through us.
2Co
1:21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us,
is God;
2Co
1:22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit
in our hearts.
2Co
1:23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to
Corinth to spare you.
2Co
1:24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow
workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
Sept.
22
2
Corinthians 2
2Co 2:1
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again
in sorrow.
2Co 2:2
For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is
made sorry by me?
2Co 2:3
And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't
have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence
in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
2Co 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with
many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might
know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
2Co 2:5
But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but
in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
2Co 2:6
Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by
the many;
2Co 2:7
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort
him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his
excessive sorrow.
2Co 2:8
Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
2Co 2:9
For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you,
whether you are obedient in all things.
2Co
2:10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed
I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in
the presence of Christ,
2Co
2:11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are
not ignorant of his schemes.
2Co
2:12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when
a door was opened to me in the Lord,
2Co
2:13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn't find Titus, my
brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
2Co
2:14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ,
and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every
place.
2Co
2:15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are
saved, and in those who perish;
2Co
2:16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet
aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
2Co
2:17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of
sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
