Simon reads the Bible

1 Corinthians 16 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Now regarding your question about the money being collected for God’s people in Jerusalem. You should follow the same procedure I gave to the churches in Galatia. 2  On the first day of each week, you should each put aside a portion of the money you have earned. Don’t wait until I get there and then try to collect it all at on...

1 Corinthians 15 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. 2  It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place. 3  I...

1 Corinthians 14 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives—especially the ability to prophesy. 2  For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all...

1 Corinthians 13 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2  If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would...

1 Corinthians 12 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us. I don’t want you to misunderstand this. 2  You know that when you were still pagans, you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols. 3  So I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of Go...

1 Corinthians 11 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1   And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. 2  I am so glad that you always keep me in your thoughts, and that you are following the teachings I passed on to you. 3  But there is one thing I want you to know: The head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4  A...

1 Corinthians 10 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2  In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3  All of them ate the s...

1 Corinthians 9 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Am I not as free as anyone else? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord with my own eyes? Isn’t it because of my work that you belong to the Lord? 2  Even if others think I am not an apostle, I certainly am to you. You yourselves are proof that I am the Lord’s apostle. 3  This is my answer to those who question...

1 Corinthians 8 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  8  Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that “we all have knowledge” about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church. 2  Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much. 3  But the person who loves God...

1 Corinthians 7 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations. 2  But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. 3  The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her hus...

1 Corinthians 6 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  When one of you has a dispute with another believer, how dare you file a lawsuit and ask a secular court to decide the matter instead of taking it to other believers! 2  Don’t you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world, can’t you decide even these little things among y...

1 Corinthians 5 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother. 2  You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship. 3&n...

1 Corinthians 4 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries. 2  Now, a person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful. 3  As for me, it matters very little how I might be evaluated by you or by any human authority. I don’t even trust my own judgment on this poin...

1 Corinthians 3 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. 2  I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, 3&nbs...

1 Corinthians 2 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  2  When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters, I didn’t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God’s secret plan. 2  For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified. 3  I came to you in weakness—timid and trembling. 4  And my message and...

1 Corinthians 1 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Sosthenes. 2  I am writing to God’s church in Corinth, to you who have been called by God to be his own holy people. He made you holy by means of Christ Jesus, just as he did for all people everywhere who call on the name...

2 Samuel 24 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Once again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and he caused David to harm them by taking a census. “Go and count the people of Israel and Judah,” the Lord told him. 2  So the king said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Take a census of all the tribes of Israel—from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south—so I ma...

2 Samuel 23 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  These are the last words of David: “David, the son of Jesse, speaks— David, the man who was raised up so high, David, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, David, the sweet psalmist of Israel. 2  “The Spirit of the Lord speaks through me; his words are upon my tongue. 3  The God of Israel spoke. The Rock of Israel said to me:...

2 Samuel 22 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  David sang this song to the Lord on the day the Lord rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul. 2  He sang: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; 3  my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. He is my refuge, my savior, the one who saves me f...

2 Samuel 21 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  There was a famine during David’s reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the Lord about it. And the Lord said, “The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.” 2  So the king summoned the Gibeonites. They were not part of Israel but were all that was left of the nation of the Amor...

2 Samuel 20 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  There happened to be a troublemaker there named Sheba son of Bicri, a man from the tribe of Benjamin. Sheba blew a ram’s horn and began to chant: “Down with the dynasty of David! We have no interest in the son of Jesse. Come on, you men of Israel, back to your homes!” 2  So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba so...

2 Samuel 19 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Word soon reached Joab that the king was weeping and mourning for Absalom. 2  As all the people heard of the king’s deep grief for his son, the joy of that day’s victory was turned into deep sadness. 3  They crept back into the town that day as though they were ashamed and had deserted in battle. 4  The king covered his f...

2 Samuel 18 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  David now mustered the men who were with him and appointed generals and captains to lead them. 2  He sent the troops out in three groups, placing one group under Joab, one under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and one under Ittai, the man from Gath. The king told his troops, “I am going out with you.” 3  But his men obj...

2 Samuel 17 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  Now Ahithophel urged Absalom, “Let me choose 12,000 men to start out after David tonight. 2  I will catch up with him while he is weary and discouraged. He and his troops will panic, and everyone will run away. Then I will kill only the king, 3  and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride returns to her husband. Aft...

2 Samuel 16 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane.  1  When David had gone a little beyond the summit of the Mount of Olives, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, was waiting there for him. He had two donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a wineskin full of wine. 2  “What are these for?” the king asked Ziba. Ziba replied, “The...