Bible Reading for September 6 and 7
World English Bible
Sept.
6
Psalms
43-45
Psa
43:1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly
nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Psa
43:2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psa
43:3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let
them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
Psa
43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I
will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Psa
43:5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within
me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper,
and my God.
Psa
44:1 We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us,
what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
Psa
44:2 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them.
You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
Psa
44:3 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your
arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
Psa
44:4 You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
Psa
44:5 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your
name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
Psa
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Psa
44:7 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed
those who hate us.
Psa
44:8 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks
to your name forever. Selah.
Psa
44:9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't
go out with our armies.
Psa
44:10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us
take spoil for themselves.
Psa
44:11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us
among the nations.
Psa
44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from
their sale.
Psa
44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a
derision to those who are around us.
Psa
44:14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head
among the peoples.
Psa
44:15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my
face,
Psa
44:16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses,
because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psa
44:17 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you,
Neither have we been false to your covenant.
Psa
44:18 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed
from your path,
Psa
44:19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and
covered us with the shadow of death.
Psa
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our
hands to a strange god;
Psa
44:21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the
heart.
Psa
44:22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded
as sheep for the slaughter.
Psa
44:23 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us
forever.
Psa
44:24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our
oppression?
Psa
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves to
the earth.
Psa
44:26 Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.
Psa
45:1 My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for
the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
Psa
45:2 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has
anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psa
45:3 Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and
your majesty.
Psa
45:4 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth,
humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome
deeds.
Psa
45:5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows
in the heart of the king's enemies.
Psa
45:6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is
the scepter of your kingdom.
Psa
45:7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore
God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your
fellows.
Psa
45:8 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of
ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
Psa
45:9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right
hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
Psa
45:10 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own
people, and also your father's house.
Psa
45:11 So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your
lord.
Psa
45:12 The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the
people entreat your favor.
Psa
45:13 The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is
interwoven with gold.
Psa
45:14 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins,
her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
Psa
45:15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall
enter into the king's palace.
Psa
45:16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make
them princes in all the earth.
Psa
45:17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.
Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.
Sept.
7
Psalms
46-48
Psa
46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psa
46:2 Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, though
the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
Psa
46:3 though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains
tremble with their swelling. Selah.
Psa
46:4 There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God
glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
Psa
46:5 God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her
at dawn.
Psa
46:6 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his
voice, and the earth melted.
Psa
46:7 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
Psa
46:8 Come, see Yahweh's works, what desolations he has made in the
earth.
Psa
46:9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow,
and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
Psa
46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted
among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth."
Psa
46:11 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
Psa
47:1 Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the
voice of triumph!
Psa
47:2 For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all
the earth.
Psa
47:3 He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
Psa
47:4 He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he
loved. Selah.
Psa
47:5 God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a
trumpet.
Psa
47:6 Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King,
sing praises.
Psa
47:7 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with
understanding.
Psa
47:8 God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
Psa
47:9 The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of
the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is
greatly exalted!
Psa
48:1 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our
God, in his holy mountain.
Psa
48:2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount
Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
Psa
48:3 God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
Psa
48:4 For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by
together.
Psa
48:5 They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They
hurried away.
Psa
48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in
travail.
Psa
48:7 With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
Psa
48:8 As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of
Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.
Psa
48:9 We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst
of your temple.
Psa
48:10 As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the
earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
Psa
48:11 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice,
Because of your judgments.
Psa
48:12 Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
Psa
48:13 Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may
tell it to the next generation.
Psa
48:14 For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide
even to death.
Sept. 6
1
Corinthians 2
1Co 2:1
When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of
speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
1Co 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus
Christ, and him crucified.
1Co 2:3
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
1Co 2:4
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1Co 2:5
that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God.
1Co 2:6
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a
wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are
coming to nothing.
1Co 2:7
But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been
hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
1Co 2:8
which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known
it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.
1Co 2:9
But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an
ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God
has prepared for those who love him."
1Co
2:10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit
searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
1Co
2:11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit
of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God,
except God's Spirit.
1Co
2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely
given to us by God.
1Co
2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual things.
1Co
2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit,
for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.
1Co
2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is
judged by no one.
1Co
2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should
instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.
Sept. 7
1
Corinthians 3
1Co 3:1
Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to
fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
1Co 3:2
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready.
Indeed, not even now are you ready,
1Co 3:3
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife,
and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the
ways of men?
1Co 3:4
For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I
follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
1Co 3:5
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you
believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
1Co 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but
God who gives the increase.
1Co 3:8
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will
receive his own reward according to his own labor.
1Co 3:9
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's
building.
1Co
3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise
master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let
each man be careful how he builds on it.
1Co
3:11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has
been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1Co
3:12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver,
costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
1Co
3:13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it,
because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what
sort of work each man's work is.
1Co
3:14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive
a reward.
1Co
3:15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he
himself will be saved, but as through fire.
1Co
3:16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's
Spirit lives in you?
1Co
3:17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for
God's temple is holy, which you are.
1Co
3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise
among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become
wise.
1Co
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
1Co
3:20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that
it is worthless."
1Co
3:21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
1Co
3:22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or
death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
1Co
3:23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
