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September 7: Proverbs 11-12, 1 Corinthians 15:33-58
<div class="esv"><h2>Proverbs 11-12 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/20011001-20012028">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> 11:1 A false balance is an abomination to the LORD,   but a just weight is his delight. When pride comes, then comes disgrace,   but with the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them,   but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,   but righteousness delivers from death. The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight,   but the wicked falls by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright delivers them,   but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust. When the wicked dies, his hope will perish,   and the expectation of wealth perishes too. The righteous is delivered from trouble,   and the wicked walks into it instead. With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor,   but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices,   and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness. By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,   but by the mouth of the wicked it is overthrown. Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense,   but a man of understanding remains silent. Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets,   but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered. Where there is no guidance, a people falls,   but in an abundance of counselors there is safety. Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm,   but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure. A gracious woman gets honor,   and violent men get riches. A man who is kind benefits himself,   but a cruel man hurts himself. The wicked earns deceptive wages,   but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward. Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live,   but he who pursues evil will die. Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD,   but those of blameless ways are his delight. Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished,   but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered. Like a gold ring in a pig's snout   is a beautiful woman without discretion. The desire of the righteous ends only in good;   the expectation of the wicked in wrath. One gives freely, yet grows all the richer;   another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched,   and one who waters will himself be watered. The people curse him who holds back grain,   but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it. Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor,   but evil comes to him who searches for it. Whoever trusts in his riches will fall,   but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf. Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind,   and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,   and whoever captures souls is wise. If the righteous is repaid on earth,   how much more the wicked and the sinner! 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,   but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the LORD,   but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness,   but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,   but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just;   the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,   but the mouth of the upright delivers them. The wicked are overthrown and are no more,   but the house of the righteous will stand. A man is commended according to his good sense,   but one of twisted mind is despised. Better to be lowly and have a servant   than to play the great man and lack bread. Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast,   but the mercy of the wicked is cruel. Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread,   but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense. Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers,   but the root of the righteous bears fruit. An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips,   but the righteous escapes from trouble. From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good,   and the work of a man's hand comes back to him. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,   but a wise man listens to advice. The vexation of a fool is known at once,   but the prudent ignores an insult. Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence,   but a false witness utters deceit. There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,   but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Truthful lips endure forever,   but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,   but those who plan peace have joy. No ill befalls the righteous,   but the wicked are filled with trouble. Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD,   but those who act faithfully are his delight. A prudent man conceals knowledge,   but the heart of fools proclaims folly. The hand of the diligent will rule,   while the slothful will be put to forced labor. Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down,   but a good word makes him glad. One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor,   but the way of the wicked leads them astray. Whoever is slothful will not roast his game,   but the diligent man will get precious wealth. In the path of righteousness is life,   and in its pathway there is no death. </div> </div><h2>1 Corinthians 15:33-58 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/46015033-46015058">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text">Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. <h3 id="p46015035.01-2">The Resurrection Body</h3> But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. <h3 id="p46015050.01-2">Mystery and Victory</h3> I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: <div class="block-indent"> “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory?   O death, where is your sting?” </div> The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>) </div> <div class="footnotes"> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <a href="#b1" id="f1">[1]</a> 11:7 Or of his strength, or of iniquity <a href="#b2" id="f2">[2]</a> 11:27 Or acceptance <a href="#b3" id="f3">[3]</a> 12:17 Hebrew breathes out <a href="#b4" id="f4">[4]</a> 12:26 Or The righteous chooses his friends carefully <a href="#b5" id="f5">[5]</a> 12:27 Or but diligence is precious wealth <a href="#b6" id="f6">[6]</a> 15:33 Probably from Menander's comedy Thais <a href="#b7" id="f7">[7]</a> 15:45 Greek a living soul <a href="#b8" id="f8">[8]</a> 15:49 Some manuscripts let us </div> </div>

September 6: Proverbs 9-10, 1 Corinthians 15:1-32
<div class="esv"><h2>Proverbs 9-10 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/20009001-20010032">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p20009001.01-1">The Way of Wisdom</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 9:1 Wisdom has built her house;   she has hewn her seven pillars. She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine;   she has also set her table. She has sent out her young women to call   from the highest places in the town, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”   To him who lacks sense she says, “Come, eat of my bread   and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways, and live,   and walk in the way of insight.” Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,   and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;   reprove a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;   teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,   and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. For by me your days will be multiplied,   and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself;   if you scoff, you alone will bear it. </div> <h3 id="p20009013.01-1">The Way of Folly</h3> <div class="block-indent"> The woman Folly is loud;   she is seductive and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house;   she takes a seat on the highest places of the town, calling to those who pass by,   who are going straight on their way, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”   And to him who lacks sense she says, “Stolen water is sweet,   and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” But he does not know that the dead are there,   that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. </div> <h3 id="p20010001.01-1">The Proverbs of Solomon</h3> 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. <div class="block-indent"> A wise son makes a glad father,   but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,   but righteousness delivers from death. The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry,   but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. A slack hand causes poverty,   but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son,   but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. Blessings are on the head of the righteous,   but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. The memory of the righteous is a blessing,   but the name of the wicked will rot. The wise of heart will receive commandments,   but a babbling fool will come to ruin. Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,   but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. Whoever winks the eye causes trouble,   but a babbling fool will come to ruin. The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,   but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. Hatred stirs up strife,   but love covers all offenses. On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found,   but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense. The wise lay up knowledge,   but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near. A rich man's wealth is his strong city;   the poverty of the poor is their ruin. The wage of the righteous leads to life,   the gain of the wicked to sin. Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,   but he who rejects reproof leads others astray. The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,   and whoever utters slander is a fool. When words are many, transgression is not lacking,   but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;   the heart of the wicked is of little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many,   but fools die for lack of sense. The blessing of the LORD makes rich,   and he adds no sorrow with it. Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool,   but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding. What the wicked dreads will come upon him,   but the desire of the righteous will be granted. When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more,   but the righteous is established forever. Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,   so is the sluggard to those who send him. The fear of the LORD prolongs life,   but the years of the wicked will be short. The hope of the righteous brings joy,   but the expectation of the wicked will perish. The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the blameless,   but destruction to evildoers. The righteous will never be removed,   but the wicked will not dwell in the land. The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,   but the perverse tongue will be cut off. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,   but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse. </div> </div><h2>1 Corinthians 15:1-32 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/46015001-46015032">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p46015001.01-2">The Resurrection of Christ</h3> 15:1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. <h3 id="p46015012.01-2">The Resurrection of the Dead</h3> Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all. Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf? Why are we in danger every hour? I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day! What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>) </div> <div class="footnotes"> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <a href="#b1" id="f1">[1]</a> 9:6 Or Leave the company of the simple <a href="#b2" id="f2">[2]</a> 9:9 Hebrew lacks instruction <a href="#b3" id="f3">[3]</a> 9:13 Or full of simpleness <a href="#b4" id="f4">[4]</a> 9:18 Hebrew Rephaim <a href="#b5" id="f5">[5]</a> 10:22 Or and toil adds nothing to it <a href="#b6" id="f6">[6]</a> 15:1 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 6, 31, 50, 58 <a href="#b7" id="f7">[7]</a> 15:19 Or we have hoped <a href="#b8" id="f8">[8]</a> 15:27 Greek he </div> </div>

September 5: Proverbs 7-8, 1 Corinthians 14:21-40
<div class="esv"><h2>Proverbs 7-8 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/20007001-20008036">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p20007001.01-1">Warning Against the Adulteress</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 7:1 My son, keep my words   and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live;   keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers;   write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”   and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman,   from the adulteress with her smooth words. For at the window of my house   I have looked out through my lattice, and I have seen among the simple,   I have perceived among the youths,   a young man lacking sense, passing along the street near her corner,   taking the road to her house in the twilight, in the evening,   at the time of night and darkness. And behold, the woman meets him,   dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. She is loud and wayward;   her feet do not stay at home; now in the street, now in the market,   and at every corner she lies in wait. She seizes him and kisses him,   and with bold face she says to him, “I had to offer sacrifices,   and today I have paid my vows; so now I have come out to meet you,   to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. I have spread my couch with coverings,   colored linens from Egyptian linen; I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,   aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;   let us delight ourselves with love. For my husband is not at home;   he has gone on a long journey; he took a bag of money with him;   at full moon he will come home.” With much seductive speech she persuades him;   with her smooth talk she compels him. All at once he follows her,   as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast   till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare;   he does not know that it will cost him his life. And now, O sons, listen to me,   and be attentive to the words of my mouth. Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;   do not stray into her paths, for many a victim has she laid low,   and all her slain are a mighty throng. Her house is the way to Sheol,   going down to the chambers of death. </div> <h3 id="p20008001.01-1">The Blessings of Wisdom</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 8:1 Does not wisdom call?   Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way,   at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town,   at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call,   and my cry is to the children of man. O simple ones, learn prudence;   O fools, learn sense. Hear, for I will speak noble things,   and from my lips will come what is right, for my mouth will utter truth;   wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are righteous;   there is nothing twisted or crooked in them. They are all straight to him who understands,   and right to those who find knowledge. Take my instruction instead of silver,   and knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is better than jewels,   and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. “I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,   and I find knowledge and discretion. The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil   and perverted speech I hate. I have counsel and sound wisdom;   I have insight; I have strength. By me kings reign,   and rulers decree what is just; by me princes rule,   and nobles, all who govern justly. I love those who love me,   and those who seek me diligently find me. Riches and honor are with me,   enduring wealth and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold,   and my yield than choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness,   in the paths of justice, granting an inheritance to those who love me,   and filling their treasuries. “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work,   the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up,   at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth,   when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped,   before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields,   or the first of the dust of the world. When he established the heavens, I was there;   when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above,   when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit,   so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,   then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight,   rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world   and delighting in the children of man. “And now, O sons, listen to me:   blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise,   and do not neglect it. Blessed is the one who listens to me,   watching daily at my gates,   waiting beside my doors. For whoever finds me finds life   and obtains favor from the LORD, but he who fails to find me injures himself;   all who hate me love death.” </div> </div><h2>1 Corinthians 14:21-40 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/46014021-46014040">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text">In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers. If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you. <h3 id="p46014026.01-2">Orderly Worship</h3> What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged, and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached? If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord. If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized. So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. But all things should be done decently and in order. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>) </div> <div class="footnotes"> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <a href="#b1" id="f1">[1]</a> 7:5 Hebrew strange <a href="#b2" id="f2">[2]</a> 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman <a href="#b3" id="f3">[3]</a> 7:10 Hebrew guarded in heart <a href="#b4" id="f4">[4]</a> 7:14 Hebrew peace offerings <a href="#b5" id="f5">[5]</a> 7:22 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as an anklet for the discipline of a fool <a href="#b6" id="f6">[6]</a> 8:16 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint govern the earth <a href="#b7" id="f7">[7]</a> 8:22 Or fathered; Septuagint created <a href="#b8" id="f8">[8]</a> 8:22 Hebrew way <a href="#b9" id="f9">[9]</a> 8:28 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain <a href="#b10" id="f10">[10]</a> 8:30 Or daily filled with <a href="#b11" id="f11">[11]</a> 14:22 Greek lacks a sign </div> </div>

September 4: Proverbs 5-6, 1 Corinthians 14:1-20
<div class="esv"><h2>Proverbs 5-6 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/20005001-20006035">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p20005001.01-1">Warning Against Adultery</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 5:1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom;   incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion,   and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,   and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,   sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death;   her steps follow the path to Sheol; she does not ponder the path of life;   her ways wander, and she does not know it. And now, O sons, listen to me,   and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her,   and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others   and your years to the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength,   and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan,   when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, “How I hated discipline,   and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers   or incline my ear to my instructors. I am at the brink of utter ruin   in the assembled congregation.” Drink water from your own cistern,   flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad,   streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone,   and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed,   and rejoice in the wife of your youth,   a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;   be intoxicated always in her love. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman   and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD,   and he ponders all his paths. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,   and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline,   and because of his great folly he is led astray. </div> <h3 id="p20006001.01-1">Practical Warnings</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 6:1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,   have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth,   caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself,   for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:   go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep   and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,   like a bird from the hand of the fowler. Go to the ant, O sluggard;   consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief,   officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer   and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard?   When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber,   a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber,   and want like an armed man. A worthless person, a wicked man,   goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet,   points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil,   continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;   in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. There are six things that the LORD hates,   seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue,   and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans,   feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies,   and one who sows discord among brothers. </div> <h3 id="p20006020.01-1">Warnings Against Adultery</h3> <div class="block-indent"> My son, keep your father's commandment,   and forsake not your mother's teaching. Bind them on your heart always;   tie them around your neck. When you walk, they will lead you;   when you lie down, they will watch over you;   and when you awake, they will talk with you. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,   and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, to preserve you from the evil woman,   from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Do not desire her beauty in your heart,   and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,   but a married woman hunts down a precious life. Can a man carry fire next to his chest   and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk on hot coals   and his feet not be scorched? So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;   none who touches her will go unpunished. People do not despise a thief if he steals   to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;   he will give all the goods of his house. He who commits adultery lacks sense;   he who does it destroys himself. He will get wounds and dishonor,   and his disgrace will not be wiped away. For jealousy makes a man furious,   and he will not spare when he takes revenge. He will accept no compensation;   he will refuse though you multiply gifts. </div> </div><h2>1 Corinthians 14:1-20 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/46014001-46014020">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p46014001.01-2">Prophecy and Tongues</h3> 14:1 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played? And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle? So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air. There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning, but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue. Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>) </div> <div class="footnotes"> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <a href="#b1" id="f1">[1]</a> 5:3 Hebrew strange; also verse 20 <a href="#b2" id="f2">[2]</a> 5:3 Hebrew palate <a href="#b3" id="f3">[3]</a> 5:5 Hebrew lay hold of <a href="#b4" id="f4">[4]</a> 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20 <a href="#b5" id="f5">[5]</a> 5:20 Hebrew a foreign woman <a href="#b6" id="f6">[6]</a> 5:21 Or makes level <a href="#b7" id="f7">[7]</a> 6:3 Or humble yourself <a href="#b8" id="f8">[8]</a> 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter <a href="#b9" id="f9">[9]</a> 6:13 Hebrew scrapes <a href="#b10" id="f10">[10]</a> 6:22 Hebrew it; three times in this verse <a href="#b11" id="f11">[11]</a> 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor <a href="#b12" id="f12">[12]</a> 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman <a href="#b13" id="f13">[13]</a> 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread <a href="#b14" id="f14">[14]</a> 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife <a href="#b15" id="f15">[15]</a> 14:6 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 20, 26, 39 <a href="#b16" id="f16">[16]</a> 14:16 Or of him that is without gifts </div> </div>

September 3: Proverbs 3-4, 1 Corinthians 13
<div class="esv"><h2>Proverbs 3-4 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/20003001-20004027">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p20003001.01-1">Trust in the LORD with All Your Heart</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 3:1 My son, do not forget my teaching,   but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life   and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;   bind them around your neck;   write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success   in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all your heart,   and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him,   and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes;   fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh   and refreshment to your bones. Honor the LORD with your wealth   and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty,   and your vats will be bursting with wine. My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline   or be weary of his reproof, for the LORD reproves him whom he loves,   as a father the son in whom he delights. </div> <h3 id="p20003013.01-1">Blessed Is the One Who Finds Wisdom</h3> <div class="block-indent"> Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,   and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver   and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels,   and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand;   in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness,   and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;   those who hold her fast are called blessed. The LORD by wisdom founded the earth;   by understanding he established the heavens; by his knowledge the deeps broke open,   and the clouds drop down the dew. My son, do not lose sight of these—   keep sound wisdom and discretion, and they will be life for your soul   and adornment for your neck. Then you will walk on your way securely,   and your foot will not stumble. If you lie down, you will not be afraid;   when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Do not be afraid of sudden terror   or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the LORD will be your confidence   and will keep your foot from being caught. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,   when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,   tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you. Do not plan evil against your neighbor,   who dwells trustingly beside you. Do not contend with a man for no reason,   when he has done you no harm. Do not envy a man of violence   and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the LORD,   but the upright are in his confidence. The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked,   but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous. Toward the scorners he is scornful,   but to the humble he gives favor. The wise will inherit honor,   but fools get disgrace. </div> <h3 id="p20004001.01-1">A Father's Wise Instruction</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 4:1 Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,   and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts;   do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father,   tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words;   keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight;   do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;   love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,   and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;   she will honor you if you embrace her. She will place on your head a graceful garland;   she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.” Hear, my son, and accept my words,   that the years of your life may be many. I have taught you the way of wisdom;   I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered,   and if you run, you will not stumble. Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;   guard her, for she is your life. Do not enter the path of the wicked,   and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it;   turn away from it and pass on. For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;   they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. For they eat the bread of wickedness   and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,   which shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;   they do not know over what they stumble. My son, be attentive to my words;   incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight;   keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them,   and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance,   for from it flow the springs of life. Put away from you crooked speech,   and put devious talk far from you. Let your eyes look directly forward,   and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet;   then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left;   turn your foot away from evil. </div> </div><h2>1 Corinthians 13 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/46013001-46013013">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p46013001.01-2">The Way of Love</h3> 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>) </div> <div class="footnotes"> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <a href="#b1" id="f1">[1]</a> 3:4 Or repute <a href="#b2" id="f2">[2]</a> 3:8 Hebrew navel <a href="#b3" id="f3">[3]</a> 3:8 Or medicine <a href="#b4" id="f4">[4]</a> 3:25 Hebrew storm <a href="#b5" id="f5">[5]</a> 3:27 Hebrew Do not withhold good from its owners <a href="#b6" id="f6">[6]</a> 3:34 Or grace <a href="#b7" id="f7">[7]</a> 3:35 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain <a href="#b8" id="f8">[8]</a> 4:1 Hebrew know <a href="#b9" id="f9">[9]</a> 4:22 Hebrew his <a href="#b10" id="f10">[10]</a> 4:26 Or Make level <a href="#b11" id="f11">[11]</a> 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast <a href="#b12" id="f12">[12]</a> 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing </div> </div>

September 2: Proverbs 1-2, 1 Corinthians 12
<div class="esv"><h2>Proverbs 1-2 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/20001001-20002022">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p20001001.01-1">The Beginning of Knowledge</h3> 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: <div class="block-indent"> To know wisdom and instruction,   to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing,   in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple,   knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning,   and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying,   the words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;   fools despise wisdom and instruction. </div> <h3 id="p20001008.01-1">The Enticement of Sinners</h3> <div class="block-indent"> Hear, my son, your father's instruction,   and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head   and pendants for your neck. My son, if sinners entice you,   do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;   let us ambush the innocent without reason; like Sheol let us swallow them alive,   and whole, like those who go down to the pit; we shall find all precious goods,   we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us;   we will all have one purse”— my son, do not walk in the way with them;   hold back your foot from their paths, for their feet run to evil,   and they make haste to shed blood. For in vain is a net spread   in the sight of any bird, but these men lie in wait for their own blood;   they set an ambush for their own lives. Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain;   it takes away the life of its possessors. </div> <h3 id="p20001020.01-1">The Call of Wisdom</h3> <div class="block-indent"> Wisdom cries aloud in the street,   in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;   at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing   and fools hate knowledge? If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;   I will make my words known to you. Because I have called and you refused to listen,   have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel   and would have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity;   I will mock when terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm   and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,   when distress and anguish come upon you. Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;   they will seek me diligently but will not find me. Because they hated knowledge   and did not choose the fear of the LORD, would have none of my counsel   and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way,   and have their fill of their own devices. For the simple are killed by their turning away,   and the complacency of fools destroys them; but whoever listens to me will dwell secure   and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.” </div> <h3 id="p20002001.01-1">The Value of Wisdom</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 2:1 My son, if you receive my words   and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom   and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight   and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver   and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the LORD   and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom;   from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;   he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice   and watching over the way of his saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice   and equity, every good path; for wisdom will come into your heart,   and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will watch over you,   understanding will guard you, delivering you from the way of evil,   from men of perverted speech, who forsake the paths of uprightness   to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice in doing evil   and delight in the perverseness of evil, men whose paths are crooked,   and who are devious in their ways. So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,   from the adulteress with her smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth   and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house sinks down to death,   and her paths to the departed; none who go to her come back,   nor do they regain the paths of life. So you will walk in the way of the good   and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will inhabit the land,   and those with integrity will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land,   and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. </div> </div><h2>1 Corinthians 12 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/46012001-46012031">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p46012001.01-2">Spiritual Gifts</h3> 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. <h3 id="p46012012.01-2">One Body with Many Members</h3> For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>) </div> <div class="footnotes"> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <a href="#b1" id="f1">[1]</a> 1:23 Or Will you turn away at my reproof? <a href="#b2" id="f2">[2]</a> 2:16 Hebrew strange <a href="#b3" id="f3">[3]</a> 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman <a href="#b4" id="f4">[4]</a> 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim <a href="#b5" id="f5">[5]</a> 12:1 The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians' letter; see 7:1 <a href="#b6" id="f6">[6]</a> 12:1 Or spiritual persons <a href="#b7" id="f7">[7]</a> 12:1 Or brothers and sisters <a href="#b8" id="f8">[8]</a> 12:13 Or servants; Greek bondservants <a href="#b9" id="f9">[9]</a> 12:20 Or members; also verse 22 </div> </div>

September 1: Psalms 148-150, 1 Corinthians 11:16-34
<div class="esv"><h2>Psalms 148-150 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/19148001-19150006">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p19148001.01-1">Praise the Name of the LORD</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 148:1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens;   praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels;   praise him, all his hosts! Praise him, sun and moon,   praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, you highest heavens,   and you waters above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the LORD!   For he commanded and they were created. And he established them forever and ever;   he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away. Praise the LORD from the earth,   you great sea creatures and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and mist,   stormy wind fulfilling his word! Mountains and all hills,   fruit trees and all cedars! Beasts and all livestock,   creeping things and flying birds! Kings of the earth and all peoples,   princes and all rulers of the earth! Young men and maidens together,   old men and children! Let them praise the name of the LORD,   for his name alone is exalted;   his majesty is above earth and heaven. He has raised up a horn for his people,   praise for all his saints,   for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the LORD! </div> <h3 id="p19149001.01-1">Sing to the LORD a New Song</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 149:1 Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song,   his praise in the assembly of the godly! Let Israel be glad in his Maker;   let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! Let them praise his name with dancing,   making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! For the LORD takes pleasure in his people;   he adorns the humble with salvation. Let the godly exult in glory;   let them sing for joy on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their throats   and two-edged swords in their hands, to execute vengeance on the nations   and punishments on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains   and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute on them the judgment written!   This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD! </div> <h3 id="p19150001.01-1">Let Everything Praise the LORD</h3> <div class="block-indent"> 150:1 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary;   praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds;   praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound;   praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance;   praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals;   praise him with loud clashing cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! </div> </div><h2>1 Corinthians 11:16-34 (<a href="http://audio.esvonline.org/hw/46011016-46011034">Listen</a>)</h2> <div class="esv-text">If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God. <h3 id="p46011017.01-2">The Lord's Supper</h3> But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another— if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>) </div> <div class="footnotes"> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <a href="#b1" id="f1">[1]</a> 148:6 Or it shall not be transgressed <a href="#b2" id="f2">[2]</a> 150:1 Hebrew expanse (compare Genesis 1:6-8) <a href="#b3" id="f3">[3]</a> 11:18 Or I believe a certain report <a href="#b4" id="f4">[4]</a> 11:24 Some manuscripts broken for <a href="#b5" id="f5">[5]</a> 11:24 Or as my memorial; also verse 25 <a href="#b6" id="f6">[6]</a> 11:30 Greek have fallen asleep (as in 15:6, 20) <a href="#b7" id="f7">[7]</a> 11:31 Or discerned <a href="#b8" id="f8">[8]</a> 11:32 Or when we are judged we are being disciplined by the Lord <a href="#b9" id="f9">[9]</a> 11:33 Or brothers and sisters <a href="#b10" id="f10">[10]</a> 11:33 Or share with </div> </div>