Bible Reading Planricky2015-10-27T23:03:50-04:00
Reading through the Bible is a rewarding experience, and these plans can help you do it! You can start at any time, choose a reading plan below, and finish reading Bible in one or two years.
Bible verses for today:
August 23 (day 238)
Psalms 120
1 Corinthians 8
| 120:1 | A song of ascents. I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.
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| 120:2 | Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
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| 120:3 | What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?
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| 120:4 | He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.
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| 120:5 | Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
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| 120:6 | Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
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| 120:7 | I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
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| 8:1 | Now about food sacrificed to idols |
| 8:2 | The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
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| 8:3 | But the man who loves God is known by God.
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| 8:4 | So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols |
| 8:5 | For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),
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| 8:6 | yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
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| 8:7 | But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
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| 8:8 | But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
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| 8:9 | Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
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| 8:10 | For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, won"t he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols?
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| 8:11 | So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
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| 8:12 | When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
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| 8:13 | Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.
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