Daily Readings for October 2

Daily Readings for October 2
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1Chronicles 16

1.They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. 2.When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh. 3.He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. 4.He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel: 5.Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud; 6.and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

7.Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. 8.Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make his doings known among the peoples. 9.Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works. 10.Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. 11.Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more. 12.Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, 13.you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 14.He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth. 15.Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, 16.the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac. 17.He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 18.saying, "I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance," 19.when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it. 20.They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. 21.He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, 22."Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!" 23.Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day. 24.Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples. 25.For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods. 26.For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens. 27.Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place. 28.Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength! 29.Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array. 30.Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can't be moved. 31.Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns!" 32.Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is therein! 33.Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. 34.Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. 35.Say, "Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise." 36.Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting.

All the people said, "Amen," and praised Yahweh.

37.So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required; 38.and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers; 39.and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon, 40.to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel; 41.and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever; 42.and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate. 43.All the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.

Ezekiel 28

1.The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, 2.Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God-- 3.behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; 4.by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures; 5.by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches-- 6.therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God, 7.therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. 8.They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas. 9.Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you. 10.You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. 11.Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 12.Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13.You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire⁷, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared. 14.You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15.You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you. 16.By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17.Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you. 18.By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. 19.All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you have become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. 20.The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 21.Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, 22.and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23.For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 24.There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them, that scorned them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. 25.Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. 26.They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.

Galatians 1

1.Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), 2.and all the brothers¹ who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: 3.Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4.who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father-- 5.to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

6.I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news"; 7.and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. 8.But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. 9.As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed. 10.For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ. 11.But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. 12.For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. 13.For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it. 14.I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 15.But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace, 16.to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17.nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus. 18.Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. 19.But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord's brother. 20.Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying. 21.Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 22.I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ, 23.but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy." 24.And they glorified God in me.

Galatians 2

1.Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. 2.I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. 3.But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 4.This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; 5.to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you. 6.But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, 7.but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision 8.(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles); 9.and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. 10.They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.

11.But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12.For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13.And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14.But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

15."We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, 16.yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. 17.But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18.For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. 19.For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. 20.I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. 21.I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"