Friday, September 11, 2026

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.

²²To 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. Selah.

⁶Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

⁸They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

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 everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

⁴¹Why do you see the speck of chaff that 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 chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that 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 chaff that is in your brother's eye.