Daily Readings for February 25

Daily Readings for February 25
Click the arrow above to the left of the audio strip to start audio for today

Exodus 38

1.He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits. 2.He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass. 3.He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass. 4.He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. 5.He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles. 6.He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass. 7.He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

8.He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

9.He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; 10.their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11.For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 12.For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 13.For the east side eastward fifty cubits. 14.The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three; 15.and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16.All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. 17.The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 18.The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court. 19.Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver. 20.All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.

21.This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. 22.Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses. 23.With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.

24.All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 25.The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 26.a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. 27.The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket. 28.Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. 29.The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels. 30.With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar, 31.the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.

Psalm 100

1.Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! 2.Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. 3.Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4.Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. 5.For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 101

1.I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises. 2.I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. 3.I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. 4.A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil. 5.I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited. 6.My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me. 7.He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes. 8.Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.

1Corinthians 8

1.Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2.But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know. 3.But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. 4.Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 5.For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;" 6.yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him. 7.However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8.But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. 9.But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. 10.For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11.And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12.Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13.Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

1Corinthians 9

1.Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord? 2.If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3.My defense to those who examine me is this. 4.Have we no right to eat and to drink? 5.Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? 6.Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? 7.What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk? 8.Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing? 9.For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain."¹⁰ Is it for the oxen that God cares, 10.or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. 11.If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? 12.If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ. 13.Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? 14.Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News. 15.But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void. 16.For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News. 17.For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. 18.What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News. 19.For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 20.To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 21.to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. 22.To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 23.Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it. 24.Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. 25.Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26.I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 27.but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.