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Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with sequential stories told across multiple weeks.
Duration: 1245 days
Names of God Bible (NOG)
Version
Isaiah 40:21-31

21 Don’t you know?
    Haven’t you heard?
        Haven’t you been told from the beginning?
            Don’t you understand the foundations of the earth?
22 God is enthroned above the earth,
    and those who live on it are like grasshoppers.
    He stretches out the sky like a canopy
    and spreads it out like a tent to live in.
23 He makes rulers unimportant
    and makes earthly judges worth nothing.
24 They have hardly been planted.
    They have hardly been sown.
    They have hardly taken root in the ground.
    Then he blows on them and they wither,
        and a windstorm sweeps them away like straw.
25 “To whom, then, can you compare me?
    Who is my equal?” asks the Holy One.

26 Look at the sky and see.
    Who created these things?
    Who brings out the stars one by one?
        He calls them all by name.
    Because of the greatness of his might and the strength of his power,
    not one of them is missing.
27 Jacob, why do you complain?
    Israel, why do you say,
    “My way is hidden from Yahweh,
        and my rights are ignored by my Elohim”?
28 Don’t you know?
    Haven’t you heard?
    El Olam, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
    doesn’t grow tired or become weary.
        His understanding is beyond reach.
29 He gives strength to those who grow tired
    and increases the strength of those who are weak.
30 Even young people grow tired and become weary,
    and young men will stumble and fall.
31 Yet, the strength of those who wait with hope in Yahweh
    will be renewed.
        They will soar on wings like eagles.
            They will run and won’t become weary.
            They will walk and won’t grow tired.

Psalm 147:1-11

Psalm 147

Hallelujah!

It is good to sing psalms to our Elohim.
    It is pleasant to sing his praise beautifully.

Yahweh is the builder of Jerusalem.
    He is the one who gathers the outcasts of Israel together.
He is the Rophe of the brokenhearted.
    He is the one who bandages their wounds.
He determines the number of stars.
    He gives each one a name.
Our Adonay is great, and his power is great.
    There is no limit to his understanding.
Yahweh gives relief to those who are oppressed.
    He brings wicked people down to the ground.

Sing to Yahweh a song of thanksgiving.
    Make music to our Elohim with a lyre.
He covers the sky with clouds.
    He provides rain for the ground.
    He makes grass grow on the mountains.
He is the one who gives food to animals
    and to young ravens when they call out.
10 He finds no joy in strong horses,
    nor is he pleased by brave soldiers.
11 Yahweh is pleased with those who fear him,
    with those who wait with hope for his mercy.

Psalm 147:20

20 He has done nothing like this for any other nation.
    The other nations do not know the decisions he has handed down.

Hallelujah!

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

16 If I spread the Good News, I have nothing to brag about because I have an obligation to do this. How horrible it will be for me if I don’t spread the Good News! 17 If I spread the Good News willingly, I’ll have a reward. But if I spread the Good News unwillingly, I’m only doing what I’ve been entrusted to do.

18 So what is my reward? It is to spread the Good News free of charge. In that way I won’t use the rights that belong to those who spread the Good News.

Paul’s Work as an Apostle

19 Although I’m free from all people, I have made myself a slave for all people to win more of them. 20 I became Jewish for Jewish people. I became subject to the laws in Moses’ Teachings for those who are subject to those laws. I did this to win them even though I’m not subject to Moses’ Teachings. 21 I became like a person who does not have Moses’ Teachings for those who don’t have those teachings. I did this to win them even though I have God’s teachings. I’m really subject to Christ’s teachings. 22 I became like a person weak in faith to win those who are weak in faith. I have become everything to everyone in order to save at least some of them. 23 I do all this for the sake of the Good News in order to share what it offers.

Mark 1:29-39

Jesus Cures Simon’s Mother-in-Law and Many Others(A)

29 After they left the synagogue, they went directly to the house of Simon and Andrew. James and John went with them. 30 Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever. The first thing they did was to tell Yeshua about her. 31 Yeshua went to her, took her hand, and helped her get up. The fever went away, and she prepared a meal for them.

32 In the evening, when the sun had set, people brought to him everyone who was sick and those possessed by demons. 33 The whole city had gathered at his door. 34 He cured many who were sick with various diseases and forced many demons out of people. However, he would not allow the demons to speak. After all, they knew who he was.

Spreading the Good News in Galilee(B)

35 In the morning, long before sunrise, Yeshua went to a place where he could be alone to pray. 36 Simon and his friends searched for him. 37 When they found him, they told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”

38 Yeshua said to them, “Let’s go somewhere else, to the small towns that are nearby. I have to spread the Good News in them also. This is why I have come.”

39 So he went to spread the Good News in the synagogues all over Galilee, and he forced demons out of people.

Names of God Bible (NOG)

The Names of God Bible (without notes) © 2011 by Baker Publishing Group.