Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 31, 2018

Psalm 111[a]

111 Praise the Lord!
    I thank the Lord with all my heart
    in the company of those who do right, in the congregation.
2 The works of the Lord are magnificent;
    they are treasured by all who desire them.
3 God’s deeds are majestic and glorious.
    God’s righteousness stands forever.
4 God is famous for his wondrous works.
    The Lord is full of mercy and compassion.
5 God gives food to those who honor him.
    God remembers his covenant forever.
6 God proclaimed his powerful deeds to his people
    and gave them what had belonged to other nations.
7 God’s handiwork is honesty and justice;
    all God’s rules are trustworthy—

        they are fulfilled with truth and right doing.
9 God sent redemption for his people;
    God commanded that his covenant last forever.
        Holy and awesome is God’s name!
10 Fear of the Lord is where wisdom begins;
    sure knowledge is for all who keep God’s laws.
        God’s praise lasts forever!

Footnotes:

Psalm 111:1 Ps 111 is an alphabetic acrostic poem; see the note at Pss 9–10.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 30, 2018

Deuteronomy 18:15-20Common English Bible (CEB)

15 The Lord your God will raise up a prophet like me from your community, from your fellow Israelites. He’s the one you must listen to.16 That’s exactly what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, when you said, “I can’t listen to the Lordmy God’s voice anymore or look at this great fire any longer. I don’t want to die!”

17 The Lord said to me: What they’ve said is right. 18 I’ll raise up a prophet for them from among their fellow Israelites—one just like you. I’ll put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. 19 I myself will hold accountable anyone who doesn’t listen to my words, which that prophet will speak in my name.20 However, any prophet who arrogantly speaks a word in my name that I haven’t commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods—that prophet must die.

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Monday, January 29, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 29, 2018

Ephesians 2:18Common English Bible (CEB)

18 We both have access to the Father through Christ by the one Spirit.

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Sunday, January 28, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 27, 2018

Ephesians 1:15-19Common English Bible (CEB)

Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians

15 Since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, this is the reason that 16 I don’t stop giving thanks to God for you when I remember you in my prayers. 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, will give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation that makes God known to you. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart will have enough light to see what is the hope of God’s call, what is the richness of God’s glorious inheritance among believers,19 and what is the overwhelming greatness of God’s power that is working among us believers. This power is conferred by the energy of God’s powerful strength.

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Daily Bible Readings January 28, 2018

Ephesians 1:15-19Common English Bible (CEB)

Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians

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Friday, January 26, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 26, 2018

Mark 1:14-20Common English Bible (CEB)

Jesus’ message

14 After John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee announcing God’s good news, 15 saying, “Now is the time! Here comes God’s kingdom! Change your hearts and lives, and trust this good news!”

Jesus calls disciples

16 As Jesus passed alongside the Galilee Sea, he saw two brothers, Simon and Andrew, throwing fishing nets into the sea, for they were fishermen. 17 “Come, follow me,” he said, “and I’ll show you how to fish for people.” 18 Right away, they left their nets and followed him. 19 After going a little farther, he saw James and John, Zebedee’s sons, in their boat repairing the fishing nets. 20 At that very moment he called them. They followed him, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired workers.

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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 25, 2018

1 Corinthians 7:29-31Common English Bible (CEB)

29 This is what I’m saying, brothers and sisters: The time has drawn short. From now on, those who have wives should be like people who don’t have them. 30 Those who are sad should be like people who aren’t crying. Those who are happy should be like people who aren’t happy. Those who buy something should be like people who don’t have possessions. 31 Those who use the world should be like people who aren’t preoccupied with it, because this world in its present form is passing away.

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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 24, 2018

Psalm 62:5-12Common English Bible (CEB)

5 Oh, I[a] must find rest in God only,
    because my hope comes from him!
6 Only God is my rock and my salvation—
    my stronghold!—I will not be shaken.
7 My deliverance and glory depend on God.
    God is my strong rock.
    My refuge is in God.
8 All you people: Trust in him at all times!
    Pour out your hearts before him!
    God is our refuge! Selah

9 Human beings are nothing but a breath.
    Human beings are nothing but lies.
    They don’t even register on a scale;
    taken all together they are lighter than a breath!
10 Don’t trust in violence;
    don’t set false hopes in robbery.
When wealth bears fruit,
    don’t set your heart on it.
11 God has spoken one thing—
    make it two things—
    that I myself have heard:
    that strength belongs to God,
12     and faithful love comes from you, my Lord—
    and that you will repay
    everyone according to their deeds.

Footnotes:

Psalm 62:5 Or my soul

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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 23, 2018

Jonah 3:1-5Common English Bible (CEB)

Nineveh hears God’s word

3 The Lord’s word came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and declare against it the proclamation that I am commanding you.” 3 And Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the Lord’s word. (Now Nineveh was indeed an enormous city, a three days’ walk across.)

4 Jonah started into the city, walking one day, and he cried out, “Just forty days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!” 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and put on mourning clothes, from the greatest of them to the least significant.

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Jonah 3:10Common English Bible (CEB)

10 God saw what they were doing—that they had ceased their evil behavior. So God stopped planning to destroy them, and he didn’t do it.

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Monday, January 22, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 22, 2018

Jonah 3:1-5Common English Bible (CEB)

Nineveh hears God’s word

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Jonah 3:10Common English Bible (CEB)

10 God saw what they were doing—that they had ceased their evil behavior. So God stopped planning to destroy them, and he didn’t do it.

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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 21, 2018

Matthew 23:23-26Common English Bible (CEB)

23 “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You give to God a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, but you forget about the more important matters of the Law: justice, peace, and faith. You ought to give a tenth but without forgetting about those more important matters. 24 You blind guides! You filter out an ant but swallow a camel.

25 “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and plate, but inside they are full of violence and pleasure seeking. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup so that the outside of the cup will be clean too.

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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 20, 2018

Matthew 23:23-26Common English Bible (CEB)

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Friday, January 19, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 19, 2018

John 1:43-51Common English Bible (CEB)

43 The next day Jesus wanted to go into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law and the Prophets: Jesus, Joseph’s son, from Nazareth.”

46 Nathanael responded, “Can anything from Nazareth be good?”

Philip said, “Come and see.”

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “Here is a genuine Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”

48 Nathanael asked him, “How do you know me?”

Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

49 Nathanael replied, “Rabbi, you are God’s Son. You are the king of Israel.”

50 Jesus answered, “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these! 51 I assure you that you will see heaven open and God’s angels going up to heaven and down to earth on the Human One.”[a]

Footnotes:

John 1:51 Or Son of Man

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Daily Bible Readings January 17, 2018

Psalm 139

For the music leader. Of David. A song.

139 Lord, you have examined me.
    You know me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up.
    Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
3 You study my traveling and resting.
    You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
4 There isn’t a word on my tongue, Lord,
    that you don’t already know completely.
5 You surround me—front and back.
    You put your hand on me.
6 That kind of knowledge is too much for me;
    it’s so high above me that I can’t fathom it.

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Psalm 139:13-18Common English Bible (CEB)

¹³You are the one who created my innermost parts;
    you knit me together while I was still in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart.
    Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
¹⁵My bones weren’t hidden from you
    when I was being put together in a secret place,
    when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
¹⁶Your eyes saw my embryo,
    and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me,^[a]
    before any one of them had yet happened.^[b]
¹⁷God, your plans are incomprehensible to me!
    Their total number is countless!
¹⁸If I tried to count them—they outnumber grains of sand!
    If I came to the very end—I’d still be with you.^[c]

Footnotes:

Psalm 139:16 Correction; Heb lacks for me.
Psalm 139:16 Heb uncertain
Psalm 139:18 Correction

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