Bible Reading for October 9 - 11
World English Bible
Oct.
9
Psalms
148-150
Psa
148:1 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the
heights!
Psa
148:2 Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army!
Psa
148:3 Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
Psa
148:4 Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above
the heavens.
Psa
148:5 Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded, and they
were created.
Psa
148:6 He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a
decree which will not pass away.
Psa
148:7 Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all
depths!
Psa
148:8 Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling
his word;
Psa
148:9 mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;
Psa
148:10 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying
birds;
Psa
148:11 kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges of
the earth;
Psa
148:12 both young men and maidens; old men and children:
Psa
148:13 let them praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is
exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
Psa
148:14 He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all
his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him.
Praise Yah!
Psa
149:1 Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the
assembly of the saints.
Psa
149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of
Zion be joyful in their King.
Psa
149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises
to him with tambourine and harp!
Psa
149:4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble
with salvation.
Psa
149:5 Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on
their beds.
Psa
149:6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a
two-edged sword in their hand;
Psa
149:7 To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the
peoples;
Psa
149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
of iron;
Psa
149:9 to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have
this honor. Praise Yah!
Psa
150:1 Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his
heavens for his acts of power!
Psa
150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his
excellent greatness!
Psa
150:3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with
harp and lyre!
Psa
150:4 Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with
stringed instruments and flute!
Psa
150:5 Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding
cymbals!
Psa
150:6 Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!
Oct.
10
Proverbs
1-4
Pro
1:1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
Pro
1:2 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of
understanding;
Pro
1:3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness,
justice, and equity;
Pro
1:4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the
young man:
Pro
1:5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the
man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
Pro
1:6 to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of
the wise.
Pro
1:7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the
foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Pro
1:8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake
your mother's teaching:
Pro
1:9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around
your neck.
Pro
1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.
Pro
1:11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood;
let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Pro
1:12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those
who go down into the pit.
Pro
1:13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with
spoil.
Pro
1:14 You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."
Pro
1:15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from
their path,
Pro
1:16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
Pro
1:17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
Pro
1:18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for
their own lives.
Pro
1:19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes
away the life of its owners.
Pro
1:20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the
public squares.
Pro
1:21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the
city gates, she utters her words:
Pro
1:22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How
long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate
knowledge?
Pro
1:23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I
will make known my words to you.
Pro
1:24 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched
out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
Pro
1:25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my
reproof;
Pro
1:26 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity
overtakes you;
Pro
1:27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster
comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
Pro
1:28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will
seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
Pro
1:29 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of
Yahweh.
Pro
1:30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
Pro
1:31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be
filled with their own schemes.
Pro
1:32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless
ease of fools will destroy them.
Pro
1:33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at
ease, without fear of harm."
Pro
2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my
commandments within you;
Pro
2:2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to
understanding;
Pro
2:3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for
understanding;
Pro
2:4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden
treasures:
Pro
2:5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the
knowledge of God.
Pro
2:6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and
understanding.
Pro
2:7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those
who walk in integrity;
Pro
2:8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of
his saints.
Pro
2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and
every good path.
Pro
2:10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be
pleasant to your soul.
Pro
2:11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
Pro
2:12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak
perverse things;
Pro
2:13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of
darkness;
Pro
2:14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of
evil;
Pro
2:15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
Pro
2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner
who flatters with her words;
Pro
2:17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant
of her God:
Pro
2:18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
Pro
2:19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the
paths of life:
Pro
2:20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of
the righteous.
Pro
2:21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain
in it.
Pro
2:22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous
will be rooted out of it.
Pro
3:1 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my
commandments:
Pro
3:2 for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add
to you.
Pro
3:3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your
neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Pro
3:4 So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of
God and man.
Pro
3:5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own
understanding.
Pro
3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths
straight.
Pro
3:7 Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from
evil.
Pro
3:8 It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
Pro
3:9 Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all
your increase:
Pro
3:10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will
overflow with new wine.
Pro
3:11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of
his reproof:
Pro
3:12 for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves
the son in whom he delights.
Pro
3:13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets
understanding.
Pro
3:14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her
return is better than fine gold.
Pro
3:15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can
desire are to be compared to her.
Pro
3:16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are
riches and honor.
Pro
3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Pro
3:18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is
everyone who retains her.
Pro
3:19 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he
established the heavens.
Pro
3:20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop
down the dew.
Pro
3:21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom
and discretion:
Pro
3:22 so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.
Pro
3:23 Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won't
stumble.
Pro
3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie
down, and your sleep will be sweet.
Pro
3:25 Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of
the wicked, when it comes:
Pro
3:26 for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot
from being taken.
Pro
3:27 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in
the power of your hand to do it.
Pro
3:28 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow
I will give it to you," when you have it by you.
Pro
3:29 Don't devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells
securely by you.
Pro
3:30 Don't strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no
harm.
Pro
3:31 Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
Pro
3:32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his
friendship is with the upright.
Pro
3:33 Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses
the habitation of the righteous.
Pro
3:34 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
Pro
3:35 The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of
fools.
Pro
4:1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know
understanding;
Pro
4:2 for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.
Pro
4:3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the
sight of my mother.
Pro
4:4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my
words. Keep my commandments, and live.
Pro
4:5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from
the words of my mouth.
Pro
4:6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she
will keep you.
Pro
4:7 Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your
possessions, get understanding.
Pro
4:8 Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor,
when you embrace her.
Pro
4:9 She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver
a crown of splendor to you."
Pro
4:10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life
will be many.
Pro
4:11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in
straight paths.
Pro
4:12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you
will not stumble.
Pro
4:13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for
she is your life.
Pro
4:14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way
of evil men.
Pro
4:15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
Pro
4:16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken
away, unless they make someone fall.
Pro
4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of
violence.
Pro
4:18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that
shines more and more until the perfect day.
Pro
4:19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what
they stumble over.
Pro
4:20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
Pro
4:21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of
your heart.
Pro
4:22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their
whole body.
Pro
4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the
wellspring of life.
Pro
4:24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far
from you.
Pro
4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly
before you.
Pro
4:26 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be
established.
Pro
4:27 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot
from evil.
Oct.
11
Proverbs
5-8
Pro
5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my
understanding:
Pro
5:2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve
knowledge.
Pro
5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother
than oil,
Pro
5:4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a
two-edged sword.
Pro
5:5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
Pro
5:6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked,
and she doesn't know it.
Pro
5:7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the
words of my mouth.
Pro
5:8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her
house,
Pro
5:9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel
one;
Pro
5:10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich
another man's house.
Pro
5:11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your
body are consumed,
Pro
5:12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart
despised reproof;
Pro
5:13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my
ear to those who instructed me!
Pro
5:14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the
gathered assembly."
Pro
5:15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your
own well.
Pro
5:16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water
in the public squares?
Pro
5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
Pro
5:18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Pro
5:19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you
at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
Pro
5:20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another?
Pro
5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines
all his paths.
Pro
5:22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin
hold him firmly.
Pro
5:23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his
folly, he will go astray.
Pro
6:1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you
have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
Pro
6:2 You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared
with the words of your mouth.
Pro
6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, seeing you have come
into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea
with your neighbor.
Pro
6:4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Pro
6:5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like
a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Pro
6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Pro
6:7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
Pro
6:8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the
harvest.
Pro
6:9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of
your sleep?
Pro
6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands
to sleep:
Pro
6:11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an
armed man.
Pro
6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a
perverse mouth;
Pro
6:13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions
with his fingers;
Pro
6:14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually,
who always sows discord.
Pro
6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken
suddenly, and that without remedy.
Pro
6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are
an abomination to him:
Pro
6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
Pro
6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in
running to mischief,
Pro
6:19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among
brothers.
Pro
6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your
mother's teaching.
Pro
6:21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Pro
6:22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch
over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Pro
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs
of instruction are the way of life,
Pro
6:24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the
wayward wife's tongue.
Pro
6:25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her
captivate you with her eyelids.
Pro
6:26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The
adulteress hunts for your precious life.
Pro
6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be
burned?
Pro
6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
Pro
6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches
her will not be unpunished.
Pro
6:30 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when
he is hungry:
Pro
6:31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give
all the wealth of his house.
Pro
6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
He who does it destroys his own soul.
Pro
6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped
away.
Pro
6:34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in
the day of vengeance.
Pro
6:35 He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content,
though you give many gifts.
Pro
7:1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
Pro
7:2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of
your eye.
Pro
7:3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your
heart.
Pro
7:4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding
your relative,
Pro
7:5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the
foreigner who flatters with her words.
Pro
7:6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
Pro
7:7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a
young man void of understanding,
Pro
7:8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to
her house,
Pro
7:9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the
night and in the darkness.
Pro
7:10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
and with crafty intent.
Pro
7:11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
Pro
7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at
every corner.
Pro
7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she
said to him:
Pro
7:14 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I
have paid my vows.
Pro
7:15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face,
and I have found you.
Pro
7:16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped
cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
Pro
7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Pro
7:18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's
solace ourselves with loving.
Pro
7:19 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
Pro
7:20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the
full moon."
Pro
7:21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering
of her lips, she seduced him.
Pro
7:22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as
a fool stepping into a noose.
Pro
7:23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to
the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
Pro
7:24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words
of my mouth.
Pro
7:25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her
paths,
Pro
7:26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a
mighty army.
Pro
7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of
death.
Pro
8:1 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?
Pro
8:2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she
stands.
Pro
8:3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors,
she cries aloud:
Pro
8:4 "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of
mankind.
Pro
8:5 You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an
understanding heart.
Pro
8:6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips
is for right things.
Pro
8:7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my
lips.
Pro
8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing
crooked or perverse in them.
Pro
8:9 They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who
find knowledge.
Pro
8:10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather
than choice gold.
Pro
8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be
desired can't be compared to it.
Pro
8:12 "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out
knowledge and discretion.
Pro
8:13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance,
the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Pro
8:14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and
power.
Pro
8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Pro
8:16 By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the
earth.
Pro
8:17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will
find me.
Pro
8:18 With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
Pro
8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield
than choice silver.
Pro
8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths
of justice;
Pro
8:21 That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their
treasuries.
Pro
8:22 "Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before
his deeds of old.
Pro
8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the
earth existed.
Pro
8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were
no springs abounding with water.
Pro
8:25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I
was brought forth;
Pro
8:26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the
beginning of the dust of the world.
Pro
8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a
circle on the surface of the deep,
Pro
8:28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the
deep became strong,
Pro
8:29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should
not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of
the earth;
Pro
8:30 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by
day, always rejoicing before him,
Pro
8:31 Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of
men.
Pro
8:32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are
those who keep my ways.
Pro
8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.
Pro
8:34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates,
waiting at my door posts.
Pro
8:35 For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from
Yahweh.
Pro
8:36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who
hate me love death."
Oct. 9
Galatians
6
Gal 6:1
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are
spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking
to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
Gal 6:2
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Gal 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he
deceives himself.
Gal 6:4
But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in
himself and not in his neighbor.
Gal 6:5
For each man will bear his own burden.
Gal 6:6
But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him
who teaches.
Gal 6:7
Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that
he will also reap.
Gal 6:8
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap
corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap
eternal life.
Gal 6:9
Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season,
if we don't give up.
Gal
6:10 So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward
all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the
faith.
Gal
6:11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
Gal
6:12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to
be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of
Christ.
Gal
6:13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law
themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may
boast in your flesh.
Gal
6:14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I
to the world.
Gal
6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Gal
6:16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and
on God's Israel.
Gal
6:17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the
marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
Gal
6:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit,
brothers. Amen.
Oct. 10
Ephesians
1
Eph 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the
saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Eph 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
Christ;
Eph 1:4
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that
we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
Eph 1:5
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ
to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
Eph 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed
favor on us in the Beloved,
Eph 1:7
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Eph 1:8
which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
Eph 1:9
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good
pleasure which he purposed in him
Eph
1:10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up
all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on
the earth, in him;
Eph
1:11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been
foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things
after the counsel of his will;
Eph
1:12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who
had before hoped in Christ:
Eph
1:13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good
News of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, you were
sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Eph
1:14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's
own possession, to the praise of his glory.
Eph
1:15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord
Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the
saints,
Eph
1:16 don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my
prayers,
Eph
1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
him;
Eph
1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know
what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory
of his inheritance in the saints,
Eph
1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who
believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
Eph
1:20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead,
and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph
1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that
which is to come.
Eph
1:22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to
be head over all things for the assembly,
Eph
1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Oct. 11
Ephesians
2
Eph 2:1
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
Eph 2:2
in which you once walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now
works in the children of disobedience;
Eph 2:3
among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children
of wrath, even as the rest.
Eph 2:4
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved
us,
Eph 2:5
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive
together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Eph 2:6
and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Eph 2:7
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his
grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
Eph 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Eph 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.
Eph
2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Eph
2:11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh,
who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called
"circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);
Eph
2:12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from
the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the
promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Eph
2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near
in the blood of Christ.
Eph
2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the
middle wall of partition,
Eph
2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of
commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself
one new man of the two, making peace;
Eph
2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the
cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
Eph
2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those
who were near.
Eph
2:18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the
Father.
Eph
2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are
fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Eph
2:20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
Eph
2:21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy
temple in the Lord;
Eph
2:22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in
the Spirit.
