Friday 10 September 2032

16For if I preach the Good News,I have nothing to boast about,for necessity is laid on me;but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward.But if not of my own will,I have a stewardship entrusted to me.18What then is my reward?That when I preach the Good News,I may present the Good News of Christ without charge,so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

19For though I was free from all,I brought myself under bondage to all,that I might gain the more.· · · verses 20–21 are not read22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak.I have become all things to all men,that I may by all means save some.23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News,that I may be a joint partaker of it.24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run,but one receives the prize?Run like that, so that you may win.25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things.Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown,but we an incorruptible.26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly.I fight like that, not beating the air,27but I beat my body and bring it into submission,lest by any means,after I have preached to others,I myself should be disqualified.

3My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the Lord.My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

4Yes, the sparrow has found a home,and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young,near your altars, Lord of Armies, my King, and my God.

5Blessed are those who dwell in your house.They are always praising you.6Blessed are those whose strength is in you,who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

12For the Lord God is a sun and a shield.The Lord will give grace and glory.He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

39He spoke a parable to them.“Can the blind guide the blind?Won’t they both fall into a pit?40A disciple is not above his teacher,but everyonewhen he is fully trained will be like his teacher.41Why do you see the speck of chaffthat is in your brother’s eye,but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?42Or how can you tell your brother,‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaffthat is in your eye,’when you yourself don’t see the beamthat is in your own eye?You hypocrite!First remove the beam from your own eye,and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaffthat is in your brother’s eye.