Daily Reading

89 Forever, O Jehovah, / Does Your word stand firm in heaven.

90 Your faithfulness is from generation to generation; / You established the earth, and it abides.

91 They abide to this day according to Your ordinances, / For all things are Your servants.

92 Unless Your law had been my delight, / I would have perished in my affliction.

93 I will never forget Your precepts, / For by them You have enlivened me.

94 I am Yours; save me, / For I have sought Your precepts.

95 The wicked have waited for me in order to destroy me, / But I consider Your testimonies.

96 I have seen an end to all perfection, / But Your commandment is all-expansive.

97 Oh, how I love Your law! / All day long it is my musing.

98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, / For they are always with me.

99 I have more insight than all my teachers, / For Your testimonies are my musing.

100 I understand more than the aged, / For I have kept Your precepts.

101 I have withheld my feet from every evil way, / That I might keep Your word.

102 I have not turned aside from Your ordinances, / For You have taught me.

103 How sweet are Your words to my taste! / Sweeter than honey to my mouth!

104 Through Your precepts I gain understanding; / Therefore I hate every false way.

105 Your word is a lamp to my feet / And a light to my path.

106 I have sworn and will confirm it, / That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.

107 I have been greatly afflicted; / O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your word.

108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah; / And teach me Your ordinances.

109 My soul is continually in my hand, / But I do not forget Your law.

110 The wicked have laid a trap for me, / But I do not stray from Your precepts.

111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, / For they are the gladness of my heart.

112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes / Forever, to the end.

113 I hate those who are double-minded, / But I love Your law.

114 You are my hiding place and my shield; / In Your word do I hope.

115 Depart from me, you evildoers, / That I may keep the commandments of my God.

116 Uphold me according to Your word that I may live, / And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

117 Hold me up that I may be safe, / And I will regard Your statutes continually.

118 You spurn all those who stray from Your statutes, / For their deceitfulness is vain.

119 You do away with all the wicked ones of the earth like dross; / Therefore I love Your testimonies.

120 My flesh trembles for fear of You, / And I am afraid of Your judgments.

121 I have performed judgment and righteousness; / Do not leave me to my oppressors.

122 Guarantee Your servant’s well-being; / Do not let the proud oppress me.

123 My eyes faint while longing for Your salvation / And for Your righteous word.

124 Deal with Your servant according to Your lovingkindness, / And teach me Your statutes.

125 I am Your servant; give me understanding, / That I may know Your testimonies.

126 It is time for Jehovah to act, / For they have broken Your law.

127 Therefore I love Your commandments / More than gold, indeed, more than fine gold;

128 Therefore I esteem all Your precepts concerning all things to be right, / And I hate every false way.

129 Your testimonies are wonderful; / Therefore my soul keeps them.

130 The opening of Your words gives light, / Imparting understanding to the simple.

131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, / For I longed for Your commandments.

132 Turn to me, and be gracious to me, / As is Your custom with those who love Your name.

133 Establish my footsteps in Your word, / And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

134 Redeem me from man’s oppression, / That I may keep Your precepts.

135 Cause Your face to shine on Your servant, / And teach me Your statutes.

136 My eyes shed streams of water, / Because men do not keep Your law.

137 You are righteous, O Jehovah; / And Your judgments are upright.

138 You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness / And great faithfulness.

139 My zeal has consumed me, / For my adversaries have forgotten Your words.

140 Your word is very pure, / And Your servant loves it.

141 I am small and despised, / But I do not forget Your precepts.

142 Your righteousness is an eternal righteousness, / And Your law is truth.

143 Distress and anguish have come upon me, / But Your commandments are my delight.

144 Your testimonies are righteous forever; / Give me understanding, and I will live.

145 I called with my whole heart; answer me, O Jehovah. / I will keep Your statutes.

146 I called upon You; save me, / And I will observe Your testimonies.

147 I anticipated the dawn and cried out; / I hoped in Your words.

148 My eyes anticipated the night watches, / That I might muse upon Your word.

149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness; / O Jehovah, according to Your ordinances enliven me.

150 Those who persecute me with evil intent draw near; / They are far from Your law.

151 You are near, O Jehovah; / And all Your commandments are truth.

152 Of old I have known from Your testimonies / That You have founded them forever.

153 Look at my affliction, and deliver me; / For I have not forgotten Your law.

154 Plead my case, and redeem me; / Enliven me according to Your word.

155 Salvation is far from the wicked, / For they do not seek Your statutes.

156 Great are Your compassions, O Jehovah; / Enliven me according to Your ordinances.

157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, / But I have not swerved from Your testimonies.

158 I saw the treacherous and loathed them, / Because they did not keep Your word.

159 See how I have loved Your precepts; / O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your lovingkindness.

160 The sum of Your word is truth, / And all Your righteous ordinances are forever.

161 Princes have persecuted me without cause, / But my heart stands in awe of Your words.

162 I rejoice at Your word, / Like one who finds great spoil.

163 I hate and abhor falsehood, / But I love Your law.

164 Seven times a day I praise You / For Your righteous ordinances.

165 There is great peace for those who love Your law, / And there is no occasion of stumbling for them.

166 I have hoped for Your salvation, O Jehovah; / And I have done Your commandments.

167 My soul has kept Your testimonies, / And I love them very much.

168 I have kept Your precepts and Your testimonies, / For all my ways are before You.

169 Let my cry come before You, O Jehovah; / Give me understanding according to Your word.

170 Let my supplication come before You; / Deliver me according to Your word.

171 Let my lips pour forth praise, / For You teach me Your statutes.

172 Let my tongue sing of Your word, / For all Your commandments are righteousness.

173 Let Your hand be ready to help me, / For I have chosen Your precepts.

174 I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah, / And Your law is my delight.

175 Let my soul live, and it will praise You; / And let Your ordinances help me.

176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, / For I have not forgotten Your commandments.

1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet surely I am to you; for you in the Lord are the seal of my apostleship.

3 My defense to those who examine me is this.

4 Do we not have a right to eat and to drink?

5 Do we not have a right to take along a sister as a wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

6 Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right not to work?

7 What soldier ever serves by his own wages? Who plants a vineyard and does not partake of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?

8 Am I speaking these things according to man? Or does the law not also say these things?

9 For in the law of Moses it is written: “ You shall not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God cares?

10 Or does He say it altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written because the plowman should plow in hope, and he who threshes, in hope of partaking.

11 If we have sown to you the spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap from you the fleshly things?

12 If others partake of this right over you, should not rather we? Yet we did not use this right, but we bear all things that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

13 Do you not know that those who labor on the sacred things eat the things of the sacred temple, that those who attend to the altar have their portion with the altar?

14 So also the Lord directed those who announce the gospel to live from the gospel.

15 But I myself have not used any of these things; and I have not written these things that it may be so with me; for it is good for me rather to die than — No one shall make my boast void.

16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no boast, for necessity is laid upon me; for woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.

17 If I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

18 What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may present the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

19 For though I am free from all, I have enslaved myself to all that I might gain the more.

20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew in order that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law (though I myself am not under law), that I might gain those under law.

21 To those without law, as without law (though I am not without law to God but within law to Christ), that I might gain those without law.

22 To the weak I became weak that I might gain the weak. To all men I have become all things that I might by all means save some.

23 And I do all things for the sake of the gospel that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

24 Do you not know that those who run on a racecourse all run, but one receives the prize? Run in this way, that you may lay hold.

25 And everyone who contends exercises self-control in all things; they then, that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we, an incorruptible.

26 I therefore run in this way, not as though without a clear aim; I box in this way, not as though beating the air;

27 But I buffet my body and make it my slave, lest perhaps having preached to others, I myself may become disapproved.