Daily Readings for July 30
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2Samuel 16

 

1.When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 2.The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink. 3.The king said, "Where is your master's son?"

Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.'"

4.Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that pertains to Mephibosheth is yours."

Ziba said, "I do obeisance. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king."

5.When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he came. 6.He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 7.Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow! 8.Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!"

9.Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head." 10.The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"

11.David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him. 12.It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today." 13.So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust. 14.The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there. 15.Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. 16.It happened, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, had come to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

17.Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?"

18.Hushai said to Absalom, "No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will stay. 19.Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn't I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father's presence, so will I be in your presence."

20.Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your counsel what we shall do."

21.Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."

22.So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. 23.The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

 

Jeremiah 20

 

1.Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2.Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh. 3.It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. 4.For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword. 5.Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. 6.You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely. 7.Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. 8.For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day. 9.If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't. 10.For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. 11.But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. 12.But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause. 13.Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers. 14.Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. 15.Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad. 16.Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17.because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18.Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

 

Romans 5

 

1.Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2.through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3.Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; 4.and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: 5.and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6.For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7.For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. 8.But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9.Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him. 10.For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

11.Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. 12.Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. 13.For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. 14.Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. 15.But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. 16.The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification. 17.For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. 18.So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. 19.For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous. 20.The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; 21.that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

Romans 6

 

1.What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2.May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? 3.Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4.We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. 5.For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; 6.knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. 7.For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8.But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; 9.knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him! 10.For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11.Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12.Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13.Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14.For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. 15.What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be! 16.Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17.But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered. 18.Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

19.I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20.For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21.What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22.But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life. 23.For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

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