Bible Reading for September 28 and 29
World English Bible
Sept.
28
Psalms
112-114
Psa
112:1 Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights
greatly in his commandments.
Psa
112:2 His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the
upright will be blessed.
Psa
112:3 Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures
forever.
Psa
112:4 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious,
merciful, and righteous.
Psa
112:5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He
will maintain his cause in judgment.
Psa
112:6 For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered
forever.
Psa
112:7 He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast,
trusting in Yahweh.
Psa
112:8 His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end
when he sees his adversaries.
Psa
112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness
endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
Psa
112:10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with
his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
Psa
113:1 Praise Yah! Praise, you servants of Yahweh, praise the name of
Yahweh.
Psa
113:2 Blessed be the name of Yahweh, from this time forth and
forevermore.
Psa
113:3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,
Yahweh's name is to be praised.
Psa
113:4 Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.
Psa
113:5 Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
Psa
113:6 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
Psa
113:7 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from
the ash heap;
Psa
113:8 that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his
people.
Psa
113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of
children. Praise Yah!
Psa
114:1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a
people of foreign language;
Psa
114:2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
Psa
114:3 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
Psa
114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
Psa
114:5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you
turned back?
Psa
114:6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills,
like lambs?
Psa
114:7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the
presence of the God of Jacob,
Psa
114:8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a
spring of waters.
Sept.
29
Psalms
115-117
Psa
115:1 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for
your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.
Psa
115:2 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
Psa
115:3 But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
Psa
115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psa
115:5 They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but
they don't see.
Psa
115:6 They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses, but they
don't smell.
Psa
115:7 They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they
don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.
Psa
115:8 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who
trusts in them.
Psa
115:9 Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
Psa
115:10 House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their
shield.
Psa
115:11 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and
their shield.
Psa
115:12 Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the
house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.
Psa
115:13 He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.
Psa
115:14 May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
Psa
115:15 Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
Psa
115:16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he
given to the children of men.
Psa
115:17 The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into
silence;
Psa
115:18 But we will bless Yah, from this time forth and forevermore.
Praise Yah!
Psa
116:1 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries
for mercy.
Psa
116:2 Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on
him as long as I live.
Psa
116:3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a
hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Psa
116:4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you,
deliver my soul."
Psa
116:5 Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.
Psa
116:6 Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved
me.
Psa
116:7 Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully
with you.
Psa
116:8 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears,
and my feet from falling.
Psa
116:9 I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
Psa
116:10 I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted."
Psa
116:11 I said in my haste, "All men are liars."
Psa
116:12 What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
Psa
116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of
Yahweh.
Psa
116:14 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his
people.
Psa
116:15 Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.
Psa
116:16 Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son
of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
Psa
116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
call on the name of Yahweh.
Psa
116:18 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his
people,
Psa
116:19 in the courts of Yahweh's house, in the midst of you,
Jerusalem. Praise Yah!
Psa
117:1 Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
Psa
117:2 For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh's
faithfulness endures forever. Praise Yah!
Sept.
28
2
Corinthians 8
2Co 8:1
Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has
been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
2Co 8:2
how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and
their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
2Co 8:3
For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power,
they gave of their own accord,
2Co 8:4
begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the
fellowship in the service to the saints.
2Co 8:5
This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves
to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
2Co 8:6
So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would
also complete in you this grace.
2Co 8:7
But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all
earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this
grace.
2Co 8:8
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the
earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
2Co 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty
might become rich.
2Co
8:10 I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who
were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be
willing.
2Co
8:11 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the
readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of
your ability.
2Co
8:12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to
what you have, not according to what you don't have.
2Co
8:13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
2Co
8:14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies
their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your
lack; that there may be equality.
2Co
8:15 As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left
over, and he who gathered little had no lack."
2Co
8:16 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you
into the heart of Titus.
2Co
8:17 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very
earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
2Co
8:18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the
Good News is known through all the assemblies.
2Co
8:19 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to
travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of
the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
2Co
8:20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning
this abundance which is administered by us.
2Co
8:21 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of
the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
2Co
8:22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times
proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason
of the great confidence which he has in you.
2Co
8:23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As
for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory
of Christ.
2Co
8:24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the
assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
Sept.
29
2
Corinthians 9
2Co 9:1
It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the
service to the saints,
2Co 9:2
for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them
of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your
zeal has stirred up very many of them.
2Co 9:3
But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may
not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be
prepared,
2Co 9:4
so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia
and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be
disappointed in this confident boasting.
2Co 9:5
I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they
would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift
that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of
generosity, and not of greediness.
2Co 9:6
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He
who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
2Co 9:7
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not
grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
2Co 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always
having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
2Co 9:9
As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the
poor. His righteousness remains forever."
2Co
9:10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food,
supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of
your righteousness;
2Co
9:11 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works
through us thanksgiving to God.
2Co
9:12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up
for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of
thanks to God;
2Co
9:13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they
glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of
Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to
all;
2Co
9:14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf,
yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
2Co
9:15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
