Bible Reading for September 8 and 9
World English Bible
Sept.
8
Psalms
49-51
Psa
49:1 Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the
world,
Psa
49:2 both low and high, rich and poor together.
Psa
49:3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter
understanding.
Psa
49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on
the harp.
Psa
49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my
heels surrounds me?
Psa
49:6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of
their riches--
Psa
49:7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God
a ransom for him.
Psa
49:8 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever
enough,
Psa
49:9 That he should live on forever, that he should not see
corruption.
Psa
49:10 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the
senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psa
49:11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,
and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands
after themselves.
Psa
49:12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the
animals that perish.
Psa
49:13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who
approve their sayings. Selah.
Psa
49:14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their
shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.
Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
Psa
49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he
will receive me. Selah.
Psa
49:16 Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his
house is increased.
Psa
49:17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall
not descend after him.
Psa
49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- and men praise you
when you do well for yourself--
Psa
49:19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never
see the light.
Psa
49:20 A man who has riches without understanding, is like the
animals that perish.
Psa
50:1 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from
sunrise to sunset.
Psa
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psa
50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before
him. It is very stormy around him.
Psa
50:4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge
his people:
Psa
50:5 "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice."
Psa
50:6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is
judge. Selah.
Psa
50:7 "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will
testify against you. I am God, your God.
Psa
50:8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings
are continually before me.
Psa
50:9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from
your pens.
Psa
50:10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a
thousand hills.
Psa
50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the
field are mine.
Psa
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine,
and all that is in it.
Psa
50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psa
50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to
the Most High.
Psa
50:15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you
will honor me."
Psa
50:16 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to
declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
Psa
50:17 seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Psa
50:18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have
participated with adulterers.
Psa
50:19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
Psa
50:20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own
mother's son.
Psa
50:21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought
that the I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in
front of your eyes.
Psa
50:22 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you
into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Psa
50:23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and
prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."
Psa
51:1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my
transgressions.
Psa
51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
Psa
51:3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
Psa
51:4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which
is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak,
and justified when you judge.
Psa
51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother
conceived me.
Psa
51:6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me
wisdom in the inmost place.
Psa
51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will
be whiter than snow.
Psa
51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have
broken may rejoice.
Psa
51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
Psa
51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within
me.
Psa
51:11 Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy
Spirit from me.
Psa
51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a
willing spirit.
Psa
51:13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be
converted to you.
Psa
51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my
salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
Psa
51:15 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
Psa
51:16 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.
You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
Psa
51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and
contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psa
51:18 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of
Jerusalem.
Psa
51:19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in
burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer
bulls on your altar.
Sept.
9
Psalms
52-54
Psa
52:1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness
endures continually.
Psa
52:2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully.
Psa
52:3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the
truth. Selah.
Psa
52:4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
Psa
52:5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and
pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the
living. Selah.
Psa
52:6 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him,
saying,
Psa
52:7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself
in his wickedness."
Psa
52:8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I
trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
Psa
52:9 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I
will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your
saints.
Psa
53:1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one
who does good.
Psa
53:2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if
there are any who understood, who seek after God.
Psa
53:3 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy
together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Psa
53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people
as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
Psa
53:5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has
scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them
to shame, because God has rejected them.
Psa
53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When
God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
Psa
54:1 Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
Psa
54:2 Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
Psa
54:3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought
after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
Psa
54:4 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my
soul.
Psa
54:5 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your
truth.
Psa
54:6 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give
thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
Psa
54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen
triumph over my enemies.
Sept. 8
1
Corinthians 4
1Co 4:1
So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's
mysteries.
1Co 4:2
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found
faithful.
1Co 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you,
or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.
1Co 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this,
but he who judges me is the Lord.
1Co 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who
will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal
the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from
God.
1Co 4:6
Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself
and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think
beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up
against one another.
1Co 4:7
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't
receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had
not received it?
1Co 4:8
You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come
to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also
might reign with you.
1Co 4:9
For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all,
like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the
world, both to angels and men.
1Co
4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We
are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
1Co
4:11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are
beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1Co
4:12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we
bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
1Co
4:13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the
world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
1Co
4:14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as
my beloved children.
1Co
4:15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many
fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good
News.
1Co
4:16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
1Co
4:17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved
and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which
are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
1Co
4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
1Co
4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I
will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
1Co
4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
1Co
4:21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love
and a spirit of gentleness?
Sept. 9
1
Corinthians 5
1Co 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you,
and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles,
that one has his father's wife.
1Co 5:2
You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done
this deed might be removed from among you.
1Co 5:3
For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit,
have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this
thing.
1Co 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together,
and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Co 5:5
are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1Co 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast
leavens the whole lump?
1Co 5:7
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are
unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in
our place.
1Co 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with
the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
1Co 5:9
I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
1Co
5:10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world,
or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then
you would have to leave the world.
1Co
5:11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who
is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an
idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't
even eat with such a person.
1Co
5:12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside?
Don't you judge those who are within?
1Co
5:13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the
wicked man from among yourselves."
This
little cartoon says “...God has feelings to.” Interesting. How
often do we think about God’s feelings? Probably not as often as we
should. I understand that we live in a very busy world and with so
many concerns about our daily life, it is understandable that we
often have a rather large list of things to ask for. But perhaps our
prayers do not have the priorities that they should. Jesus taught us
how to pray...
