Today’s
Reading : Psalms 37 – 43 and 2Timothy
1 (KJV)
Psalms 37
Psa 37:1 A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of
evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psa 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the
grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psa 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in
the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Psa 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he
shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Psa 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in
him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Psa 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as
the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Psa 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him:
fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his
way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices
to pass.
Psa 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not
thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psa 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those
that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psa 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be:
yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it
shall not be.
Psa 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and
shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psa 37:12 The wicked plotteth
against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his
teeth.
Psa 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Psa 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have
bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and
to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psa 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.
Psa 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Psa 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken:
but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
Psa 37:18 The LORD knoweth
the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.
Psa 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time:
and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psa 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies
of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into
smoke shall they consume away.
Psa 37:21 The wicked borroweth,
and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth.
Psa 37:22 For such
as be
blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they
that be
cursed of him shall be cut off.
Psa 37:23 The steps of a good
man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his
way.
Psa 37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast
down: for the LORD upholdeth him with
his hand.
Psa 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Psa 37:26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth;
and his seed is blessed.
Psa 37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell
forevermore.
Psa 37:28 For the LORD loveth
judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are
preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psa 37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and
dwell therein forever.
Psa 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh
of judgment.
Psa 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Psa 37:32 The wicked watcheth
the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Psa 37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor
condemn him when he is judged.
Psa 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he
shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psa 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and
spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psa 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be
found.
Psa 37:37 Mark the perfect man,
and behold the upright: for the end of that
man is peace.
Psa 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed
together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psa 37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he
is their strength in the time of
trouble.
Psa 37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver
them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust
in him.
Psalms 38
Psa 38:1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O
LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psa 38:2 For thine arrows
stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psa 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is
there any
rest in my bones because of my sin.
Psa 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head:
as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psa 38:5 My wounds stink and
are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psa 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go
mourning all the day long.
Psa 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there
is no soundness in my flesh.
Psa 38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by
reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psa 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from
thee.
Psa 38:10 My heart panteth,
my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine
eyes, it also is gone from me.
Psa 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my
sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psa 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me:
and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all
the day long.
Psa 38:13 But I, as a deaf man,
heard not; and I was as a dumb man that
openeth not his mouth.
Psa 38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth
not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Psa 38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt
hear, O Lord my God.
Psa 38:16 For I said, Hear
me, lest otherwise
they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth,
they magnify themselves against me.
Psa 38:17 For I am
ready to halt, and my sorrow is
continually before me.
Psa 38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be
sorry for my sin.
Psa 38:19 But mine enemies are
lively, and they are strong: and they
that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Psa 38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine
adversaries; because I follow the thing that
good is.
Psa 38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far
from me.
Psa 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Psalms 39
Psa 39:1 To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A
Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Psa 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Psa 39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was
musing the fire burned: then spoke I
with my tongue,
Psa 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the
measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Psa 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at
his best state is altogether vanity.
Selah.
Psa 39:6 Surely every man walketh
in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth
up riches, and knoweth
not who shall gather them.
Psa 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psa 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make
me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psa 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because
thou didst it.
Psa 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed
by the blow of thine hand.
Psa 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for
iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like
a moth: surely every man is vanity.
Selah.
Psa 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my
cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am
a stranger with thee, and a sojourner,
as all my fathers were.
Psa 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength,
before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms 40
Psa 40:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I
waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Psa 40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,
out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and
established my goings.
Psa 40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
Psa 40:4 Blessed is
that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Psa 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are
to usward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto
thee: if I would declare and speak of them,
they are more than can be numbered.
Psa 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;
mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
required.
Psa 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the
book it is
written of me,
Psa 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy
law is within my heart.
Psa 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great
congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Psa 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my
heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed
thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great
congregation.
Psa 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me,
O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth
continually preserve me.
Psa 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me
about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look
up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Psa 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD,
make haste to help me.
Psa 40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together
that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to
shame that wish me evil.
Psa 40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their
shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Psa 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be
glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be
magnified.
Psa 40:17 But I am
poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art
my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalms 41
Psa 41:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Blessed is he that considereth
the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Psa 41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him
alive; and he shall be blessed upon the
earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Psa 41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of
languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Psa 41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my
soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Psa 41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he
die, and his name perish?
Psa 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity:
his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad,
he telleth it.
Psa 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me:
against me do they devise my hurt.
Psa 41:8 An evil disease, say
they, cleaveth
fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Psa 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I
trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his
heel against me.
Psa 41:10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and
raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psa 41:11 By this I know that thou favourest
me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psa 41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest
me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face
forever.
Psa 41:13 Blessed be
the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 42
Psa 42:1 To the chief Musician, Maschil,
for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth
my soul after thee, O God.
Psa 42:2 My soul thirsteth
for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psa 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night,
while they continually say unto me, Where is
thy God?
Psa 42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone
with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy
and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Psa 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God:
for I shall yet praise him for the help
of his countenance.
Psa 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me:
therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Psa 42:7 Deep calleth unto
deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone
over me.
Psa 42:8 Yet
the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the
daytime, and in the night his song shall
be with me, and
my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psa 42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou
forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psa 42:10 As
with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto
me, Where is thy God?
Psa 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why
art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 43
Psa 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against
an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psa 43:2 For thou art
the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of
the oppression of the enemy?
Psa 43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them
lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Psa 43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto
God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Psa 43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why
art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
health of my countenance, and my God.
2Timothy 1
2Ti
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will
of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2Ti 1:2 To Timothy, my
dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and
peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2Ti 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without
ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
2Ti 1:4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful
of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
2Ti 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned
faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy
mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
2Ti 1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou
stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2Ti 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the
testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the
afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
2Ti 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our
works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began,
2Ti 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of
our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and
immortality to light through the gospel:
2Ti 1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an
apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
2Ti 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these
things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am
persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against
that day.
2Ti 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou
hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2Ti 1:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee
keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
2Ti 1:15 This thou knowest,
that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
2Ti 1:16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed
of my chain:
2Ti 1:17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out
very diligently, and found me.
2Ti 1:18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find
mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at
Ephesus, thou knowest very well.