Passages Read Aloud during Bible Time
Saturday (6/18) Meeting for Bible Reading:
Isaiah 53 Prophecy: He (Christ) has borne our grief....
Psalm 139 O Lord, you know me thoroughly. I will praise you. You are everywhere I might go.
Isaiah 44: 1-8 I will pour water upon those who are thirsty. Fear not. There is no God but me.
Psalm 30 O Lord, I cried to you. You heard me and turned my mourning into dancing. I will give thanks to you forever.
Romans 11:33 - 12:8 O the depths of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! ... We, being many with differing gifts, are one body in Christ.
Jonah 2 Jonah said, "The waters surrounded me, even to my soul, yet you brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. I will speak with the voice of thanksgiving."
Job 3 I should have lain still and been quiet; then I would have been at rest. I was not safe nor was I quiet, and trouble came.
Micah 5:3 Prophecy: (Out of Bethlehem will come a man who is to be ruler in Israel, who has been in existence from the days of eternity.) And he will wait until the woman has labored through childbirth and then return to the children of Israel.
Isaiah 55 Whoever is thirsty, come to the water.... Seek the Lord while he may be found.... You shall go with joy and be led forth in peace.
Psalm 42 My soul thirsts for the living God....The Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me.
Sunday (6/19) Meeting for Bible Reading:
Luke 5:17-26 A crippled man is let down through the roof to Jesus and healed.
Luke 4:16-30 Jesus reads from Isaiah in the temple: The Lord has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted....
Romans 12 (see same citation from Saturday, plus) Treat each other with brotherly love. Be patient in difficulties. Bless people who persecute you. Overcome evil with good.
Zephaniah 3:11-12 ( In that day I will turn all the people to call upon the name of God.) Then you will not be ashamed of any of your deeds and all people will trust in God.
Acts 16:1-26 Paul travels in what is now western Turkey and Greece. He frees a slave woman from soothsaying for her masters, who then have Paul jailed. An earthquake frees Paul and the jailer is converted.
Isaiah 58:1-6 The "fast" God desires is not outward display but rather to loose the bands of wickedness and let the oppressed go free.
James 1:19-21 Let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, and meekly receive the Word of God in your hearts.
Psalm 34:4-6 I sought the Lord and he heard me. He delievered me from all my fears.
Luke 1:26-39 God's angel tells Mary that she will conceive a son to be called Jesus, and that her childless cousin Elizabeth will also have a baby.
Deuteronomy 24:5 For one year after a man has married he shall not go to war or be charged with any business but shall stay at home with his wife.
Job 40:4-5 42:1-4 and the next to last sentence of v.8 God said to Job, "Act like a man now. I will question you and you will answer." Job said, "I know that you can do everything. I have talked about things I didn't understand. Let me ask you questions." And God said, "I will accept my servant, Job."
Monday (6/20) Meeting for Bible Reading:
Jeremiah 31:31-34 The days will come, said the Lord, when I will make a new covenant. I will put my law in the people's hearts and forgive their sins. I will be their God and they will be my people.
Acts 10:9-45 Cornelius sent for Peter. As the messengers approached, Peter had a vision in which God showed him that regardless of the person's identity, anyone who respects God and does what is right is accepted by God. Peter visited Cornelius and explained the good news about Jesus. The Holy Spirit came upon Cornelius and his household.
Lamentations 3 My strength and my hope perished, but God's compassion fails not. His mercies are new every morning. I will hope in him.
Esdras 4 (found in the Apochrypha; a vision of the prophet Ezra, as summarized in Wikipedia) God's ways cannot be understood by the human mind. Soon, however, the end would come, and God's justice would be made manifest.
Revelation 4:1-11 The writer had a vision of a throne in heaven surrounded by four animals and 24 elders praising God.
Revelation 5:7-10 The vision continues, with the animals and elders playing harps and singing praise to Christ.
Isaiah 42 (This is the section of scripture that Jesus read in the temple at the beginning of his ministry. See second passage from Sunday.)
Revelations 22:16-17 I, Jesus, am the bright morning star. Let whoever is thirsty come and take the water of life freely.
Psalm 1 Blessed is the person who does not follow the counsel of the ungodly. That person shall be like a tree planted by the river, that brings forth fruit in season.
2 Timothy 3 Everyone who lives in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution....All Scripture is given by God for learning doctrine, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness.
Luke 1 Mary's song upon learning that she would give birth: "My soul does magnify the Lord and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior...."; and Zacharias's prophecy about his infant son, John: "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people...."
Luke 5:36-39 No one puts new wine in old wineskins, for the wine will burst them and be spilled. New wine must be put in new wineskins....
Psalm 121 I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? My help comes from God, who made heaven and earth.
2 Timothy 1:3-7 I thank God that I remember you constantly in my prayers. I very much want to see you, that I may be filled with joy. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Numbers 14 The Israelites grumbled about Moses, saying they would have been better off if they'd stayed in Egypt. God was annoyed at their impatience and said he would disinherit them. But Moses pleaded that if God did so, the Egyptians would tell everyone that the Israelite's God had failed. So God said he wouldn't kill them, but that only those people who had trusted God would be allowed to enter the land that God had promised them.
Tuesday (6/21) Sharing in response to:
Matthew 5:1-4 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [or "How blest are those who know their need of God." NEB] Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Wednesday (6/22) Sharing in response to:
Matthew 5:5-6 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.