Bible Reading for September 3 - 5
World English Bible
Sept.
3
Psalms
33-35
Psa
33:1 Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the
upright.
Psa
33:2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with
the harp of ten strings.
Psa
33:3 Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
Psa
33:4 For the word of Yahweh is right. All his work is done in
faithfulness.
Psa
33:5 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the
loving kindness of Yahweh.
Psa
33:6 By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the
breath of his mouth.
Psa
33:7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up
the deeps in storehouses.
Psa
33:8 Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of him.
Psa
33:9 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
Psa
33:10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes
the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Psa
33:11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his
heart to all generations.
Psa
33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he
has chosen for his own inheritance.
Psa
33:13 Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
Psa
33:14 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the
inhabitants of the earth,
Psa
33:15 he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of
their works.
Psa
33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty
man is not delivered by great strength.
Psa
33:17 A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver
any by his great power.
Psa
33:18 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who
hope in his loving kindness;
Psa
33:19 to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in
famine.
Psa
33:20 Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
Psa
33:21 For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his
holy name.
Psa
33:22 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped
in you.
Psa
34:1 I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in
my mouth.
Psa
34:2 My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and
be glad.
Psa
34:3 Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
Psa
34:4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all
my fears.
Psa
34:5 They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never
be covered with shame.
Psa
34:6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of
all his troubles.
Psa
34:7 The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and
delivers them.
Psa
34:8 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who
takes refuge in him.
Psa
34:9 Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those
who fear him.
Psa
34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek
Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
Psa
34:11 Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of
Yahweh.
Psa
34:12 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he
may see good?
Psa
34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
Psa
34:14 Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
Psa
34:15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to
their cry.
Psa
34:16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the
memory of them from the earth.
Psa
34:17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of
all their troubles.
Psa
34:18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves
those who have a crushed spirit.
Psa
34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers
him out of them all.
Psa
34:20 He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
Psa
34:21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall
be condemned.
Psa
34:22 Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who
take refuge in him shall be condemned.
Psa
35:1 Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against
those who fight against me.
Psa
35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
Psa
35:3 Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul,
"I am your salvation."
Psa
35:4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to
dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
Psa
35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving
them on.
Psa
35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing
them.
Psa
35:7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me.
Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Psa
35:8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has
hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
Psa
35:9 My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his
salvation.
Psa
35:10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who
delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor
and the needy from him who robs him?"
Psa
35:11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I
don't know about.
Psa
35:12 They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
Psa
35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own
bosom.
Psa
35:14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my
brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
Psa
35:15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and
I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
Psa
35:16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth
at me.
Psa
35:17 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their
destruction, my precious life from the lions.
Psa
35:18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise
you among many people.
Psa
35:19 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Psa
35:20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words
against those who are quiet in the land.
Psa
35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha!
Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
Psa
35:22 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be
far from me.
Psa
35:23 Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for
me!
Psa
35:24 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness.
Don't let them gloat over me.
Psa
35:25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way
we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him
up!"
Psa
35:26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice
at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who
magnify themselves against me.
Psa
35:27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous
cause. Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who
has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"
Psa
35:28 My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your
praise all day long.
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. 3
Romans
15
Rom
15:1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak,
and not to please ourselves.
Rom
15:2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good,
to be building him up.
Rom
15:3 For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written,
"The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
Rom
15:4 For whatever things were written before were written for our
learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the
Scriptures we might have hope.
Rom
15:5 Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of
the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
Rom
15:6 that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom
15:7 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you,
to the glory of God.
Rom
15:8 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the
circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises
given to the fathers,
Rom
15:9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is
written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the
Gentiles, and sing to your name."
Rom
15:10 Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."
Rom
15:11 Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the
peoples praise him."
Rom
15:12 Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he
who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."
Rom
15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy
Spirit.
Rom
15:14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you
yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also
to admonish others.
Rom
15:15 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you,
because of the grace that was given to me by God,
Rom
15:16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles,
serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the
Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Rom
15:17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things
pertaining to God.
Rom
15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which
Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word
and deed,
Rom
15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's
Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I
have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
Rom
15:20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where
Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's
foundation.
Rom
15:21 But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of
him came. They who haven't heard will understand."
Rom
15:22 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to
you,
Rom
15:23 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and
having these many years a longing to come to you,
Rom
15:24 whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to
see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if
first I may enjoy your company for a while.
Rom
15:25 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
Rom
15:26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to
make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at
Jerusalem.
Rom
15:27 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their
debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their
spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly
things.
Rom
15:28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to
them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
Rom
15:29 I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness
of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.
Rom
15:30 Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the
love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers
to God for me,
Rom
15:31 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in
Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be
acceptable to the saints;
Rom
15:32 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and
together with you, find rest.
Rom
15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
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."
