To Me every knee shall bow

OT

 

7th Cycle.

  

NT

 

14th Cycle.

  

Sat 13Sep2026

Fri 04Sep2026

Psalm 84:1 - 89:52 (119 verses) WEB

Psalms Book IV:

Psalm 90:1 - 106:48 (333 verses) WEB

Psalms Book V:

Psalm 107:1 - 109:31 (87 verses) WEB

John 16:1 - 21:25 (197 verses) NIV

Sat 05Sep2026

Psalm 110:1 - 118:29 (112 verses) ESV

Psalm 119:1 - 176 (176 verses) WEB

Psalm 120:1 - 138:8 (165 verses) WEB

Acts 1:1 - 5:42 (178 verses) ESV

Sun 06Sep2026

Psalm 139:1 - 150:6 (161 verses) WEB

Proverbs 1:1 - 10:32 (288 verses) NIV

Acts 6:1 - 10:48 (206 verses) ESV

Mon 07Sep2026

Proverbs 11:1 - 21:31 (327 verses) NIV

Acts 11:1 - 20:38 (357 verses) ESV

Wed 09Sep2026

Ecclesiastes 1:1 - 12:14 (222 verses) JND

Song of Solomon 1:1 - 8:14 (117 verses) NWB

Romans 1:1 - 9:33 (257 verses) NET

Thu 10Sep2026

Isaiah 1:1 - 17:14 (344 verses) WEB

Romans 10:1 - 16:27 (176 verses) ESV

Fri 11Sep2026

Isaiah 18:1 - 34:17 (323 verses) BBE

1 Corinthians 1:1 - 6:20 (124 verses) NET

1 Corinthians 7:1 - 16:24 (313 verses) WEB

Sat 12Sep2026

Isaiah 35:1 - 51:23 (376 verses) WEB

2 Corinthians 1:1 - 13:14 (257 verses) ESV

Sun 13Sep2026

Isaiah 52:1 - 66:24 (249 verses) WEB

Galatians 1:1 - 6:18 (149 verses) ESV

Ephesians 1:1 - 6:24 (155 verses) ESV

ESV — English Standard Version
NET — New English Translation
BBE — Bible in Basic English
NWB — Noah Webster Bible
JND — JN Darby's Translation
WEB — World English Bible

Overall Progress : 2026-09-13	OT	NT
Total No. of Verses	23,145	7,958
Finished reading	Isaiah	Ephesians
Finished No. of Verses	18,947	6,217
Completion	81.9 %	78.1 %

I have spent nine days of intensive readings of both the Old and New Testaments. At last, I am gradually catching up with lost time after several months of slow readings.

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Passage for Today

By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return:
‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’

Isaiah 45:23

 

English Standard Version

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In simplicity and godly sincerity

OT

 

7th Cycle.

  

NT

 

13th Cycle.

  

2025.08.11 Mon

2025.07.13 Sun

Joshua 1:1 - 5:15 (98 verses) WEB

2 Corinthians 1:1 - 13:14 (257 verses) NIV

2025.07.20 Sun

Galatians 1:1 - 3:29 (74 verses) NIV

2025.07.22 Tue

Joshua 6:1 - 8:35 (88 verses) WEB

Galatians 4:1 - 6:18 (75 verses) KJV

2025.08.11 Mon

Joshua 9:1 - 13:33 (150 verses) WEB

Ephesians 1:1 - 6:24 (155 verses) KJV

WEB — World English Bible
KJV — King James Version
NIV — New International Version

Overall Progress
OT = 6,230 / 23,145 verses (26.9 %)
NT = 6,215 / 7,957 verses (78.1 %)

Reading has continued to be slow and frequently interrupted through the months of July and the first two weeks of August. In the New Testament, I finished reading the Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians followed by the entire Epistles to the Galatians and to the Ephesians. In the Old Testament I have covered the first thirteen chapters of the Book of Joshua.

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Passage for Today

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 1:12

 

King James Version

Not with persuasive words but with power of God

OT

 

6th Cycle.

  

NT

 

12th Cycle.

  

2024-11-06 Wed

2024-10-26 Sat

Romans 12:1 - 16:27 (118 verses) NET

2024-10-27 Sun

1 Corinthians 1:1 - 6:20 (124 verses) NET

2024-10-28 Mon

1 Corinthians 7:1 - 16:24 (313 verses) WEB

2 Corinthians 1:1 - 13:13 (256 verses) RBV

2024-10-29 Tue

Galatians 1:1 - 6:18 (149 verses) RBV

2024-10-30 Wed

Ephesians 1:1 - 6:24 (155 verses) WEB

2024-10-31 Thu

Philippians 1:1 - 4:23 (104 verses) KJV

Colossians 1:1 - 4:18 (95 verses) KJV

2024-11-01 Fri

1 Thessalonians 1:1 - 5:28 (89 verses) NET

2 Thessalonians 1:1 - 3:18 (47 verses) NET

2024-11-02 Sat

1 Timothy 1:1 - 6:21 (113 verses) WEB

2 Timothy 1:1 - 4:22 (83 verses) WEB

2024-11-05 Tue

Titus 1:1 - 3:15 (46 verses) NET

Philemon 1:1 - 1:25 (25 verses) NET

Hebrews 1:1 - 13:25 (303 verses) WEB

2024-11-06 Wed

James 1:1 - 3:18 (71 verses) NET

James 4:1 - 5:20 (37 verses) WEB

NET — New English Translation
WEB — World English Bible
RBV — Revised Berkeley Version
KJV — King James Version

Overall Progress
OT = 22,558 / 23,145 verses (97.46 %)
NT = 7,229 / 7,957 verses (90.85 %)

Most of my readings over the past ten days were done during my recent visit to Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Shanghai in the Jiangnan district of China.

This is the first time I manage to continue with my daily Bible readings while travelling, mostly at night back at the hotel after a long day of sight-seeing, with some reading done on long bus journeys between distant cities, and on the five hour flights to and fro.

I have now read about 90% of the New Testament.

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Passages for Today

1 Corinthians 2:4,5

 

New English Translation

4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11

 

New English Translatioin

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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My thoughts for today can be found in the links below —

• Paradoxes of Apostolic Living 2022-05-19
• Words of Life 2021-01-17
• We believe, therefore we speak 2020-07-06
• The New Way of the Spirit 2013-06-10

To every one of us, grace has been given

OT  6th Cycle.   NT  11th Cycle.   Saturday 06Jul2024

Sun 16Jun24

1 Samuel 3:1 - 10:27 (169 verses) WEB

1 Corinthians 12:1 - 16:24 (166 verses) NET

Mon 17Jun24

2 Corinthians 1:1 - 6:18 (116 verses) NKJV

Tue 18Jun24

1 Samuel 11:1 - 31:13 (577 verses) NIV

2 Corinthians 7:1 - 13:14 (141 verses) NIV

Wed 19Jun24

2 Samuel 1:1 - 15:37 (406 verses) WEB

Galatians 1:1 - 6:18 (149 verses) WEB

Wed 26Jun24

2 Samuel 16:1 - 19:43 (128 verses) NIV

Ephesians 1:1 - 6:24 (155 verses) NIV

WEB — World English Bible
NET — New English Translation
NKJV — New King James Version
NIV — New International Version

Overall Progress
OT = 8,325 / 23,145 verses (35.97 %)
NT = 6,219 / 7,957 verses (78.16 %)

Over the past ten days, I finished reading the book of First Samuel and nineteen chapters of Second Samuel in the Old Testament. Meanwhile for my New Testament readings, I continue with the Pauline Epistles — completing the last five chapters of First Corinthians, the entire Second Corinthians and the epistle to the Ephesians.

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Passage of the Day

7But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
8This is why it says:

‘When he ascended on high,
he took many captives
and gave gifts to his people.’

Ephesians 4:7 – 8  New International Version

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My thoughts for today can be found in the link below —

• Did the Anointed One give or receive gifts?

The Branch — the Ruler from of Old

OT  5th Cycle.   NT  10th Cycle.

Mon 21Aug23
Zechariah 4:1 – 8:23 (81 verses) JND
Ephesians 1:1 – 6:24 (155 verses) NET

Wed 23Aug23
Philippians 1:1 – 4:23 (104 verses) NET

Thu 24Aug23
Zechariah 9:1 – 14:21 (90 verses) JND

Sat 26Aug23
Colossians 1:1 – 4:18 (95 verses) WEB

Tue 29Aug23
Malachi 1:1 – 4:6 (55 verses) ASV
1 Thessalonians 1:1 – 5:28 (89 verses) WNT

JND — J.N.Darby's Translation
NET — New English Translation
WEB — World English Bible
WNT — Weymouth New Testament

Over the last week, I have finished reading the last two books of the Old Testament bringing me to the conclusion of my 5th Cycle of OT readings.

In my New Testament readings, I continued with reading the Epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and the First Epistle to the Thessalonians.

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Passage of the Day

And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me [who is] to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.
Micah 5:2  JN Darby's Translation

12 . . . Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold a man whose name is [the] Branch; and he shall grow up from his own place, and he shall build the temple of Jehovah:
13 even he shall build the temple of Jehovah; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
Zechariah 6:12 – 13  JN Darby's Translation

Today we are reminded by the prophets Micah and Zechariah that our Lord Iesus the Anointed is the Ruler from of Old, the Branch who will build the Temple of God and who will be both Ruler and Priest upon His Throne.

Deleted notes : a painful misstep

OT  5th Cycle.   NT  9th Cycle.

The detailed day-by-day record of my Bible readings for the past 18 days are lost. I have been recording the daily entries on Google Keep notes and today, after I have updated my overall Old and New Testament progress, I deleted them accidentally before I copied them over to this blog. Unfortunately, Google Keep does not allow me to undo and restore deleted texts once I have closed the note.

It was a painful misstep for me.

As a result, I can only post a summary of my reading progress below, without the detailed books, chapters and verses I covered for each of the past 18 days:

Old Testament readings

• Joshua 01May23 – 07May23
• Judges 07May23 – 11May23
• Ruth 12May23 – 12May23
• 1 Samuel 12May23 – 16May23
• 2 Samuel 16May23 – 18May23
• 1 Kings 18May23 – 20May23
• 2 Kings 20May23 – (finished Ch 1 to Ch 4)

New Testament readings

• Romans 02May23 – 03May23
• 1 Corinthians 04May23 – 07May23
• 2 Cotinthians 07May23 – 09May23
• Galatians 11May23 – 11May23
• Ephesians 11May23 – 11May23
• Philippians 11May23 – 11May23
• Colossians 12May23 – 12May23
• 1 Thessalonians 12May23 – 12May23
• 2 Thessalonians 12May23 – 12May23
• 1 Timothy 12May23 – 12May23
• 2 Timothy 12May23 – 12May23
• Titus 13May23 – 13May23
• Philemon 13May23 – 13May23
• Hebrews 13May23 – 13May23
• James 14May23 – 14May23
• 1 Peter 14May23 – 14May23
• 2 Peter 15May23 – 15May23
• 1 John 15May23 – 15May23
• 2 John 15May23 – 15May23
• 3 John 15May23 – 15May23
• Jude 15May23 – 15May23
• Revelation 16May23 – 18May23

I have reached a milestone in completing the 9th round of my New Testament reading two days ago, on Thu 18May23

A summary of my Bible reading cycles can be found below:

• My Bible Reading Cycles

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Noteworthy Passages of the Day

1 Therefore, because we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces patient endurance, 4 and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 5:1 - 5  Lexham English Bible

26 And likewise also, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with unexpressed groanings. 27 And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit is, because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose, 29 because those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined, these he also called, and those whom he called, these he also justified, and those whom he justified, these he also glorified.
Romans 8:26-30  Lexham English Bible

if you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved
Romans 10:9  Lexham English Bible

5 Now may the God of patient endurance and of encouragement grant you to be in agreement with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus, 6 so that with one mind you may glorify with one mouth the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:5-6  Lexham English Bible

14 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.
1 Corinthians 6:14  New American Standard Bible

Then I knew . . .

OT  4th Cycle.   NT  8th Cycle.

Mon 05Dec22
Jeremiah 23:1 - 37:21 NIV (411 verses)
Galatians 1:1 - 6;18 WEB (149 verses)
Ephesians 1:1 - 6:24 WEB (155 verses)

For today's Old Testament reading, I covered another fifteen chapters of Jeremiah, bringing me to the end of chapter 37.

In the New Testament, I read through both the Epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians.

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Passage of the Day

6 And Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 7 ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.” ’ 8 Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:6 - 8  New King James Version

Jeremiah became certain, he "knew", that the instructions he had heard earlier about buying over his uncle's field in Anatoth was really the word of the LORD when he saw Hanamel face to face in the court where he was imprisoned.

Likewise with us, when the word of God is proven true by significant events happening in our lives, we know that we have believed in the true word of our God and Father in Heaven.

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Nine years ago, I wrote my observations of Jeremiah 32:8 briefly in a blog post, link below:

• So I knew (29Sep2013)

Heard, Believed, Sealed.

OT  4th Cycle.    NT  7th Cycle.

Wednesday 17Aug2022
2 Samuel 5:1 - 15:37 GNB (264 verses)
Ephesians 1:1 - 6:24 ESV (155 verses)

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In my New Testament reading today, I read all six chapters of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Tomorrow I will begin reading the Epistle to the Philippians.

For my Old Testament reading, I read another eleven chapters from Second Samuel, from chapters 5 to 15.

Passage of the day

13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:13 - 14  English Standard Version

I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Iesus

Sunday 22May2022
OT reading to resume on 01Jul22
Galatians 5:1 – 6:18 WEB (44 verses)
Ephesians 1:1 - 6:24 WEB (155 verses)

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Having finished reading the Old Testament yesterday, I will be reading only the New Testament from today onwards until the end of June. After that I will embark on my next cycle of Old Testament again.

In my reading of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians this afternoon, I read the prayer of the apostle for the assembly at Ephesus from chapter 3 verses 14 to 19.

In making this prayer, the Apostle bows his knees to the Father of our Lord Iesus the Anointed, asking for strength, for love, and for understanding of the love of the Anointed One to be granted to the Ephesian brethren.

Ephesians 3:14 - 19  WEB  World English Bible

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,

that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;

to the end that you,

being rooted and grounded in love,

may be strengthened

to comprehend with all the saints

what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge,

that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.

I first wrote my thoughts about this prayer nine years ago in my devotional blog post. Last August, I wrote another post on it again, paying attention to the word "Christ", the Anointed One. The following are the links to my posts:

• The Prayer for the Ephesians (07Jun2013)
• The Lord Iesus, the Anointed One (22Aug2021)

One God, Father of all, over all, through all, in all

Sunday 27Feb2022

Today's Passages
2 Kings 17:1 - 20:21 NRSV (136 verses)
Ephesians 4:1 - 6:24 BBE (89 verses)

Today I am reminded from Ephesians chapter 4 that we have One God and Father of all. Our God and Father is over all. He is through all. And He is in all.

Ephesians 4:5 - 6  BBE  Bible in Basic English
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

My New Testament reading also brought me back to verses 7 and 8 of Ephesians chapter 4, which tells us that the Anointed One "gave gifts" to us when he ascended to heaven. This statement in Ephesians 4 is a reference to Psalm 68:18. However, in that verse, the psalmist wrote that the Anointed One "received gifts" instead. This contradicts what the apostle wrote in Ephesians 4:7,8.

Ephesians 4:7 - 8  KJV  King James Version
7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Psalm 68:18  KJV  King James Version
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast *received gifts* for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

For many years, I found no answer to resolve this contradiction. Even a search of Psalm 68:18 in the Septuagint, from which many New Testament verses are quoted, failed to find the words "gave gifts".

Until one day, when I came across Psalm 68:18 in the Peshitta. There right before me stood the verse that says, "You have ascended on high and you have captured captivity and you have *given gifts* to the children of men and rebels will not dwell before God."

In in June 2020, I wrote a short post about my discovery, link below:

• Did the Anointed give or receive gifts?

Accounts of eight kings of Judah and ten kings of Israel

Sat 26Feb2022

Today's Passages
2 Kings 6:1 - 16:20 GNB (309 verses)
Galatians 2:1 - 6:18 JND (125 verses)
Ephesians 1:1 - 3:21 JND (66 verses)

Shabbat Shalom.

Today, the 25th day of Adar (12th month) is the Seventh Day of the Biblical Week. It is Sabbath Day. Let us rest from all our work in keeping the Fourth Commandment.

In my Old Testament reading today, I read chapters 6 through 16 of Second Kings. These chapters contain accounts of the 5th to 12th kings of the southern kingdom of Judah interleaved with accounts of the 8th to 18th kings of the northern kingdom of Israel.

Altogether, these chapters of the book of Second Kings tell of the reigns of eight kings of Judah and ten kings of Israel.

Kings of Judah

5th Jehoram ben Jehoshaphat

6th Ahaziah ben Jehoram

7th Queen Athaliah bat Ahab

8th Joash ben Ahaziah

9th Amaziah ben Joash

10th Uzziah ben Amaziah

11th Jotham ben Uzziah

12th Ahaz ben Jotham

Kings of Israel

9th Joram ben Ahab (brother of Ahaziah ben Ahab)

10th Jehu ben Jehoshaphat ben Nimshi

11th Jehoahaz ben Jehu

12th Jehoash ben Jehoahaz

13th Jeroboam ben Jehoash

14th Zechariah ben Jeroboam ben Jehoash

15th Shallum ben Jabez

16th Menahem ben Gadi

17th Pekahiah ben Menahem

18th Capt. Pekah ben Remaliah

A table of all the kings of the divided kingdom of Judah and Israel can be found in the link below:

• Kings of Judah and Israel

A Summary of Readings over two weeks

Monday 2021.12.13

Today's Passages:
2 Chronicles 33:1 - 36:23 RBV (108 verses)
Genesis 1:1 - 3:24 NIV (80 verses)
Ephesians 5:1 - 6:24 NIV (57 verses)
Philippians 1:1 - 4:23 NIV (104 verses)

Sunday 2021.12.12
Passages:
2 Chronicles 32:1 - 33 ASV (33 verses)
Ephesians 3:1 - 4:32 RBV (53 verses)

Friday 2021.12.10
Passages:
2 Chronicles 30:1 - 31:21 ASV (48 verses)
Galatians 6:1 - 18 RBV (18 verses)
Ephesians 1:1 - 2:22 RBV (45 verses)

Thursday 2021.12.09
Passages:
Galatians 4:1 - 5:26 RBV (57 verses)

Mon 2021.11.29 to Wed 2021.12.08
Cumulative Passages:
2 Chronicles 10:1 - 29:36 (432 verses)
2 Corinthians 1:1 - 13:14 (233 verses)

I was away from my computer for the last two weeks, visiting my daughter's family whom I have not seen for two years because of border restrictions brought about by the Covid-19 Pandemic.

At last, I am back again at my desktop, writing this post and waking up to the reality of how many chapters I had managed to read while travelling and visiting my grandchildren.

From the end of November when I began preparing to embark on my journey, to the first week of December, I finished reading the entire epistle of Second Corinthians along with nineteen chapters of Second Chronicles up to the end of chapter 29.

Then from 09December until today, I read Galatians, Ephesians and Philippians. At the same time, I finished the remaining seven chapters of Second Chronicles, bringing me to the end of my 2nd Cycle of Old Testament Reading.

Today I embark on my 3rd Cycle of Old Testament Reading, beginning with the book of Genesis, covering the first three chapters.

All in all over the last two weeks, I have read a total of 701 verses from the Old Testament. From the New Testament, I read a total of 567 verses, bringing me to the end of Philippians in the current 4th Cycle of New Testament Reading.

I am Yehovah

Monday 2021.08.23

In today's OT reading, I covered Isaiah chapters forty-two through forty-six. The word of the LORD, "I am YEHOVAH" (translated as "I am the LORD" in the NIV) occurs in at least two instances, first in Isaiah 42:8 and again in Isaiah 45:5ff, quoted from the American Standard Version below:

Isaiah 42:8 ASV
I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.

Isaiah 45:5 - 7 ASV
5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me;
6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Jehovah, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.

The passage for my NT reading today is Ephesians chapters five and six. These are the last two chapters of this Epistle. Tomorrow, I will begin reading the Epistle to the Philippians using the King James Version.

Today's Passages:
Isaiah 42:1 - 46:13 NIV
Ephesians 5:1 - 6:24 NKJV -- Philippians KJV

Iesus the Anointed

Sunday 2021.08.22

This morning's NT reading brought me through Ephesians chapters three and four.

In this portion of scripture, I revisited the Apostle Paul's prayer for the Ephesian assembly in Ephesians 3:14 - 21. During the reading, it occurred to me that whenever "Lord Jesus Christ" is mentioned in the text, the original meaning was "Lord Jesus the Anointed One". The word "Christ" (or Christos in Greek) is a descriptive title rather than a part of the Lord's name.

I thought that if I replace the term "Christ" with the title "the Anointed", the prayer of Paul for the Ephesians would come across more powerfully and meaningfully. In the passage below, I have copied Eph 3:14 - 21 from the King James Version and replaced the word "Christ" with "the Anointed":

Ephesians 3:14 - 21 KJV
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus the Anointed,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That the Anointed may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of the Anointed, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by the Anointed Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

I have also written a post about this prayer in my devotional blog, as shown below:

• The Prayer for the Ephesians (Eph 3:14 - 21)

My OT reading for today covers Isaiah chapters thirty-six through forty-one.

Today's Passages:
Isaiah 36:1 - 41:29 NIV
Ephesians 3:1 - 4:32 NKJV

Hope, Riches, and Great Power

Saturday 2021.08.21

Shabbat Shalom.

Today is the Seventh Day of the Biblical Week. Let us keep the Fourth Commandment. Let us remember the Shabbat and keep it holy by resting from all our work until sunset this evening.

This morning my OT reading of the Latter Prophets in the Neviim of the Hebrew division of scriptures covers chapters 29 through 35 of the book of Isaiah.

In the NT, I started reading the first two chapters of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians. In Ephesians chapter one, the apostle Paul wrote about his prayer for the Ephesian brethren:

Ephesians 1:17 - 23 KJV
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

I have also written two short posts about the prayers of the Apostle Paul for the Ephesians, firstly in chapter one, and again in chapter three, in my devotional blog, as follows:

• A Prayer for Enlightenment (Eph 1:17 - 22)
• The Prayer for the Ephesians (Eph 3:14 - 21)

Today's Passages:
Isaiah 29:1 - 35:10 NIV
Ephesians 1:1 - 2:22 NKJV

Wednesday 07Apr21

Wednesday 2021.04.07

2 Chronicles 29:1 - 36 ASV
2 Chronicles 30:1 - 27 BBE
Psalm 17:1 - 15 KJV
Psalm 17(18):1 - 50 LXX
Ephesians 3:1 - 4:32 KJV
Ephesians 5:1 - 6:24 WNT
Sirach 14:1 - 27 LXX

ASV = American Standard Version
BBE = Bible in Basic English
KJV = King James Version
LXX = Septuagint Brenton
WNT = Weymouth New Testament

Tuesday 06Apr21

Tuesday 2021.04.06

2 Chronicles 27:1 - 9 BBE
2 Chronicles 28:1 - 27 ASV
Psalm 13:1 - 16:11 WEB
Ephesians 2:1 - 22 WNT
Sirach 13:1 - 25 LXX

BBE = Bible in Basic English
ASV = American Standard Version
WEB = World English Bible
WNT = Weymouth New Testament
LXX = Septuagint Brenton

Monday 05Apr21

Monday 2021.04.05

2 Chronicles 25:1 - 26:23 BBE
Psalm 11:1 - 12:8 WEB
Galatians 2:1 - 4:31 KJV
Galatians 5:1 - 6:18 WNT
Ephesians 1:1 - 23 WNT
Sirach 12:1 - 18 LXX

BBE = Bible in Basic English
WEB = World English Bible
KJV = King James Version
WNT = Weymouth New Testament
LXX = Septuagint Brenton

Monday 29June2020

Exodus 15:1 - 27 LXX
Ephesians 5:1 - 6:24 KJV BBE

LXX = Septuagint (Brenton)
KJV = King James Version
BBE = Bible in Basic English

Sunday 28June2020

Exodus 13:1 - 14:31 LXX
Ephesians 3:1 - 4:32 KJV ASV

LXX = Septuagint (Brenton)
KJV = King James Version
ASV = American Standard Version