One Year Bible.

Redeem Us, O God

¹For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

We have heard with our ears, O God;

our fathers have told us

the work You did in their days,

in the days of old.

²With Your hand You drove out the nations

and planted our fathers there;

You crushed the peoples

and cast them out.

³For it was not by their sword that they took the land;

their arm did not bring them victory.

It was by Your right hand,

Your arm, and the light of Your face,

because You favored them.

⁴You are my King, O God,

who ordains victories for Jacob.

⁵Through You we repel our foes;

through Your name we trample our enemies.

⁶For I do not trust in my bow,

nor does my sword save me.

⁷For You save us from our enemies;

You put those who hate us to shame.

⁸In God we have boasted all day long,

and Your name we will praise forever.

Selah

⁹But You have rejected and humbled us;

You no longer go forth with our armies.

¹⁰You have made us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us have plundered us.

¹¹You have given us up as sheep to be devoured;

You have scattered us among the nations.

¹²You sell Your people for nothing;

no profit do You gain from their sale.

¹³You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,

a mockery and derision to those around us.

¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations,

a laughingstock among the peoples.

¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me,

and shame has covered my face,

¹⁶at the voice of the scorner and reviler,

because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

¹⁷All this has come upon us,

though we have not forgotten You

or betrayed Your covenant.

¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back;

our steps have not strayed from Your path.

¹⁹But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals;

You have covered us with deepest darkness.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

²¹would not God have discovered,

since He knows the secrets of the heart?

²²Yet for Your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

²³Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping?

Arise! Do not reject us forever.

²⁴Why do You hide Your face

and forget our affliction and oppression?

²⁵For our soul has sunk to the dust;

our bodies cling to the earth.

²⁶Rise up; be our help!

Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

Roles in Worship

¹You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

²Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you. ³But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

⁴Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. ⁵And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. ⁶If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.

⁷A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. ⁸For man did not come from woman, but woman from man. ⁹Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. ¹⁰For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

¹¹In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. ¹²For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

¹³Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? ¹⁴Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, ¹⁵but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. ¹⁶If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper

¹⁷In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good. ¹⁸First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. ¹⁹And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.

²⁰Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat. ²¹For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk. ²²Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!

²³For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” ²⁵In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” ²⁶For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

²⁷Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. ²⁹For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. ³⁰That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

³¹Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment. ³²But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

³³So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. ³⁴If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.

An End to Idolatry

¹“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. ²And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

³And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.

⁴And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive. ⁵He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.’ ⁶If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ he will answer, ‘These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered

⁷Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,

against the man who is My Companion,

declares the LORD of Hosts.

Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,

and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

⁸And in all the land,

declares the LORD,

two-thirds will be cut off and perish,

but a third will be left in it.

⁹This third I will bring through the fire;

I will refine them like silver

and test them like gold.

They will call on My name,

and I will answer them.

I will say, ‘They are My people,’

and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”