October 10, 2024 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS
Colossians 2:16-23
Let
No One Disqualify You
16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on
you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon
or a Sabbath. 17 These
are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
18 Let no one disqualify
you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about
visions,[a] puffed up without reason by his sensuous
mind, 19 and
not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit
together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
20 If with Christ you
died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in
the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”
22 (referring to things
that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?
23 These have indeed an
appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and
severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of
the flesh.
Footnotes
- Colossians 2:18 Or about the things he has seen
Psalm 7
In
You Do I Take Refuge
A Shiggaion[a] of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.
7 O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;
save
me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest like a lion they
tear my soul apart,
rending
it in pieces, with none to deliver.
3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if
there is wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid my
friend[b] with evil
or
plundered my enemy without cause,
5 let the enemy pursue
my soul and overtake it,
and
let him trample my life to the ground
and
lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 Arise, O
Lord, in your anger;
lift
yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake
for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of
the peoples be gathered about you;
over
it return on high.
8 The Lord judges the peoples;
judge
me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and
according to the integrity that is in me.
9 Oh, let the evil of
the wicked come to an end,
and
may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,[c]
O
righteous God!
10 My shield is with God,
who
saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous
judge,
and
a God who feels indignation every day.
12 If a man[d] does not repent, God[e] will whet his sword;
he
has bent and readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for
him his deadly weapons,
making
his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked
man conceives evil
and
is pregnant with mischief
and
gives birth to lies.
15 He makes a pit,
digging it out,
and
falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns
upon his own head,
and
on his own skull his violence descends.
17 I will
give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and
I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most
High.
Footnotes
- Psalm 7:1 Probably a
musical or liturgical term
- Psalm 7:4 Hebrew the
one at peace with me
- Psalm 7:9 Hebrew the
hearts and kidneys
- Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
- Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
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