Bible Reading for October 28 and 29
World English Bible
Oct.
28
Isaiah
5-8
Isa
5:1 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his
vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Isa
5:2 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the
choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a
winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded
wild grapes.
Isa
5:3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please
judge between me and my vineyard.
Isa
5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not
done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield
wild grapes?
Isa
5:5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take
away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall
of it, and it will be trampled down.
Isa
5:6 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it
will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they
rain no rain on it."
Isa
5:7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and
the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but,
behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of
distress.
Isa
5:8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field,
until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst
of the land!
Isa
5:9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will
be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
Isa
5:10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of
seed shall yield an ephah."
Isa
5:11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may
follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine
inflames them!
Isa
5:12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their
feasts; but they don't regard the work of Yahweh, neither have they
considered the operation of his hands.
Isa
5:13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.
Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched
with thirst.
Isa
5:14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth
without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he
who rejoices among them, descend into it.
Isa
5:15 So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the
arrogant ones are humbled;
Isa
5:16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy
One is sanctified in righteousness.
Isa
5:17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers
will eat the ruins of the rich.
Isa
5:18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and
wickedness as with cart rope;
Isa
5:19 Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work,
that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
draw near and come, that we may know it!"
Isa
5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
Isa
5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in
their own sight!
Isa
5:22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at
mixing strong drink;
Isa
5:23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the
innocent!
Isa
5:24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the
dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as
rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have
rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel.
Isa
5:25 Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people, and he has
stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The
mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst
of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is still stretched out.
Isa
5:26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will
whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come
speedily and swiftly.
Isa
5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber
nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the
latchet of their shoes be broken:
Isa
5:28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses'
hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
Isa
5:29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young
lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off,
and there will be no one to deliver.
Isa
5:30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the
sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The
light is darkened in its clouds.
Isa
6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a
throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Isa
6:2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two
he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
Isa
6:3 One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is
Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!"
Isa
6:4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who
called, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isa
6:5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a
man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
Isa
6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
Isa
6:7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has
touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin
forgiven."
Isa
6:8 I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and
who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
Isa
6:9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but
don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'
Isa
6:10 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and
shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their
ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be
healed."
Isa
6:11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until
cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the
land becomes utterly waste,
Isa
6:12 And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places
are many in the midst of the land.
Isa
6:13 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be
consumed: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when
they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock."
Isa
7:1 It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the
son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against
it, but could not prevail against it.
Isa
7:2 It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied
with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people,
as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
Isa
7:3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you,
and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper
pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
Isa
7:4 Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither
let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son
of Remaliah.
Isa
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted
evil against you, saying,
Isa
7:6 "Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's
divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the
son of Tabeel."
Isa
7:7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: "It shall not stand,
neither shall it happen."
Isa
7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is
Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces,
so that it shall not be a people;
Isa
7:9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be
established.' "
Isa
7:10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
Isa
7:11 "Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the
depth, or in the height above."
Isa
7:12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt
Yahweh."
Isa
7:13 He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for
you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my
God also?
Isa
7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the
virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
Isa
7:15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil,
and choose the good.
Isa
7:16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the
good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
Isa
7:17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's
house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed
from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
Isa
7:18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly
that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee
that is in the land of Assyria.
Isa
7:19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in
the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
Isa
7:20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in
the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head
and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
Isa
7:21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young
cow, and two sheep;
Isa
7:22 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk
which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat
butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.
Isa
7:23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a
thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and
thorns.
Isa
7:24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the
land will be briers and thorns.
Isa
7:25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not
come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the
sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."
Isa
8:1 Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it
with a man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;'
Isa
8:2 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah
the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."
Isa
8:3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son.
Then said Yahweh to me, "Call his name 'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.'
Isa
8:4 For before the child knows how to say, 'My father,' and, 'My
mother,' the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be
carried away by the king of Assyria."
Isa
8:5 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,
Isa
8:6 "Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah
that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
Isa
8:7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty
flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It
will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
Isa
8:8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass
through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of
its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
Isa
8:9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen,
all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress
for battle, and be shattered!
Isa
8:10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak
the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."
Isa
8:11 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed
me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Isa
8:12 "Don't say, 'A conspiracy!' concerning all about which
this people say, 'A conspiracy!' neither fear their threats, nor be
terrorized.
Isa
8:13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must regard as holy. He is the one
you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
Isa
8:14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will
be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isa
8:15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be
captured."
Isa
8:16 Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples.
Isa
8:17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of
Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isa
8:18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for
signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in
Mount Zion.
Isa
8:19 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar
spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:"
shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the
dead on behalf of the living?
Isa
8:20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak
according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isa
8:21 They will pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it
will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by
their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
Isa
8:22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the
gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Oct.
29
Isaiah
9-12
Isa
9:1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In
the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by
the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa
9:2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those
who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has
shined.
Isa
9:3 You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy.
They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men
rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Isa
9:4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the
rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
Isa
9:5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the
garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
Isa
9:6 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the
government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace.
Isa
9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no
end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and
to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on,
even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
Isa
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.
Isa
9:9 All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants
of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
Isa
9:10 "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone.
The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in
their place."
Isa
9:11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the
adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
Isa
9:12 The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will
devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa
9:13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither
have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
Isa
9:14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm
branch and reed, in one day.
Isa
9:15 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet
who teaches lies is the tail.
Isa
9:16 For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who
are led by them are destroyed.
Isa
9:17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men,
neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for
everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched
out still.
Isa
9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and
thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll
upward in a column of smoke.
Isa
9:19 Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up;
and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
Isa
9:20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will
eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will
eat the flesh of his own arm:
Isa
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together
shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa
10:1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers
who write oppressive decrees;
Isa
10:2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my
people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they
may make the fatherless their prey!
Isa
10:3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
Isa
10:4 They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall
under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
Isa
10:5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is
my indignation!
Isa
10:6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the
people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and
to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the
streets.
Isa
10:7 However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
Isa
10:8 For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings?
Isa
10:9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't
Samaria like Damascus?"
Isa
10:10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved
images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Isa
10:11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to
Jerusalem and her idols?
Isa
10:12 Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his
whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of
the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of
his haughty looks.
Isa
10:13 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done
it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed
the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like
a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Isa
10:14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and
like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the
earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their
mouth, or chirped."
Isa
10:15 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw
exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift
those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is
not wood.
Isa
10:16 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat
ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the
burning of fire.
Isa
10:17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one
day.
Isa
10:18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer
faints.
Isa
10:19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a
child could write their number.
Isa
10:20 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel,
and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again
lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One
of Israel, in truth.
Isa
10:21 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the
mighty God.
Isa
10:22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined,
overflowing with righteousness.
Isa
10:23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that
determined, in the midst of all the earth.
Isa
10:24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My people who
dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you
with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
Isa
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you
will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his
destruction."
Isa
10:26 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the
sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.
Isa
10:27 It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from
off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke
shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
Isa
10:28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At
Michmash he stores his baggage.
Isa
10:29 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging
at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
Isa
10:30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen,
Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
Isa
10:31 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for
safety.
Isa
10:32 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the
mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isa
10:33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with
terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
Isa
10:34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
Isa
11:1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out
of his roots will bear fruit.
Isa
11:2 The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
Isa
11:3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by
the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
Isa
11:4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with
equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the
rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the
wicked.
Isa
11:5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness
the belt of his waist.
Isa
11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down
with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf
together; and a little child will lead them.
Isa
11:7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down
together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
Isa
11:8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned
child will put his hand on the viper's den.
Isa
11:9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the
earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover
the sea.
Isa
11:10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root
of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting
place will be glorious.
Isa
11:11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his
people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam,
from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isa
11:12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from
the four corners of the earth.
Isa
11:13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute
Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah won't
persecute Ephraim.
Isa
11:14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the
west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will
extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will
obey them.
Isa
11:15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;
and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and
will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in
sandals.
Isa
11:16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his
people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he
came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa
12:1 In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you,
Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away
and you comfort me.
Isa
12:2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be
afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become
my salvation."
Isa
12:3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of
salvation.
Isa
12:4 In that day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on
his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his
name is exalted!
Isa
12:5 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be
known in all the earth!
Isa
12:6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One
of Israel is great in the midst of you!"
Oct. 28
1
Thessalonians 5
1Th 5:1
But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need
that anything be written to you.
1Th 5:2
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a
thief in the night.
1Th 5:3
For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden
destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman;
and they will in no way escape.
1Th 5:4
But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake
you like a thief.
1Th 5:5
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't
belong to the night, nor to darkness,
1Th 5:6
so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be
sober.
1Th 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are
drunk in the night.
1Th 5:8
But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of
salvation.
1Th 5:9
For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of
salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Th
5:10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live
together with him.
1Th
5:11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as
you also do.
1Th
5:12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you,
and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,
1Th
5:13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be
at peace among yourselves.
1Th
5:14 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the
fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
1Th
5:15 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always
follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.
1Th
5:16 Rejoice always.
1Th
5:17 Pray without ceasing.
1Th
5:18 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus toward you.
1Th
5:19 Don't quench the Spirit.
1Th
5:20 Don't despise prophesies.
1Th
5:21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
1Th
5:22 Abstain from every form of evil.
1Th
5:23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your
whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Th
5:24 He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
1Th
5:25 Brothers, pray for us.
1Th
5:26 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
1Th
5:27 I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to
all the holy brothers.
1Th
5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Oct. 29
2
Thessalonians 1
2Th 1:1
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in
God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
2Th 1:3
We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as
it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love
of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
2Th 1:4
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for
your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the
afflictions which you endure.
2Th 1:5
This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end
that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you
also suffer.
2Th 1:6
Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those
who afflict you,
2Th 1:7
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord
Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
2Th 1:8
giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't
obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
2Th 1:9
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the
Lord and from the glory of his might,
2Th
1:10 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired
among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was
believed) in that day.
2Th
1:11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count
you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and
work of faith, with power;
2Th
1:12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and
you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
