Rally Point: The Daily Bible Briefing

1 Corinthians 10   English Standard Version     Warning Against Idolatry 10  For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, [ a ]  that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,   2  and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,   3  and all ate the same spiritual food,   4  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock t...

1 Corinthians 9   English Standard Version     Paul Surrenders His Rights 9  Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?   2  If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3  This is my defense to those who would examine me.   4  Do we not have the right to eat and drink?  ...

1 Corinthians 8 Food Offered to Idols 8  Now concerning [ a ]  food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.   2  If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.   3  But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. [ b ] 4  Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an id...

Principles for Marriage 7  Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."   2  But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.   3  The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.   4  For the wife does not have au...

Lawsuits Against Believers 6  When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?   2  Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?   3  Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!   4...

after much prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit, this verse is in our readings, and I want to give a full answer to responding to pride month.  it is awesome how the Lord puts all of this together.  be blessed, may the Lord lead you to be a light for others who need the Gospel of Jesus. 

1 Corinthians 4   English Standard Version     The Ministry of Apostles 4  This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.   2  Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.   3  But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.   4  For I am not aware of...

1 Corinthians 3   English Standard Version     Divisions in the Church 3  But I, brothers, [ a ]  could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.   2  I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,   3  for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not o...

1 Corinthians 2 Proclaiming Christ Crucified 2  And I, when I came to you, brothers, [ a ]  did not come proclaiming to you the testimony [ b ]  of God with lofty speech or wisdom.   2  For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.   3  And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,   4  and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wi...

Full Sermon from last weeks readings on the tower of babel, pentecost, the gift of tongues and praying in the Spirit. 

1 Corinthians 1   English Standard Version     Greeting 1  Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, 2  To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: 3  Grace to you and peace from Go...

1 Corinthians 13-14   English Standard Version     The Way of Love 13  If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.   2  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.   3  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up...

Joel 3   English Standard Version     The  Lord  Judges the Nations 3  [ a ]  "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,   2  I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the na...

Joel 1-2   1 The word of the  Lord  that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts 2  Hear this, you elders;      give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days,      or in the days of your fathers? 3  Tell your children of it,      and let your children tell their children,      and their children to another generation. 4  What the cutting locust left...

Acts 2   English Standard Version     The Coming of the Holy Spirit 2  When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.   2  And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.   3  And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested [ a ]  on each one of them.   4  And they were all filled wi...

Genesis 11 English Standard Version The Tower of Babel 11  Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.   2  And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.   3  And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.   4  Then they said, "Come, let us bui...

1 Peter 5   Modern English Version     Tending the Flock of God 5  I exhort the elders who are among you, as one who is also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:  2  Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, take care of them, not by constraint, but willingly, not for dishonest gain, but eagerly.  3  Do not lord over those...

1 Peter 4   Modern English Version     Good Stewards of God's Grace 4  Therefore, since Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,  2  so that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh serving human desires, but the will of God.  3  For in earlier times of our lives it may have suff...

1 Peter 3   Modern English Version     Wives and Husbands 3  Likewise you wives, be submissive to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,  2  as they see the purity and reverence of your lives.  3  Do not let your adorning be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine clothing.  4  But le...

1 Peter 2 Modern English Version Therefore put away all wickedness, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking.  2  As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow,  3  if it is true that you have experienced that the Lord is good. 4  Coming to Him as to a living stone who is rejected by men, but chosen by God and precious,  5  you also, as living stones, are being...

1 Peter 1   Modern English Version Salutation 1  Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the refugees scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  2  elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. A Living Hope 3  Blessed be the G...

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Genesis 10   Modern English Version     The Table of Nations 10  Now these are the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. And sons were born to them after the flood. The Japhethites 2  The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek, and Tiras. 3  The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4  The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites,...

Genesis 9   Modern English Version     The Noahic Covenant 9  Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.  2  Every beast of the earth and every bird of the sky and all that moves on the earth and all the fish of the sea will fear you and be terrified of you. They are given into your hand.  3  Every moving thing that lives will be food for you...