Today's Reading | August 7, 2025
Galatians 4:21–31
Introduction Galatians 4:21–31: Drawing upon the example of Abraham’s two sons by Hagar and Sarah, Paul demonstrates that anyone who seeks to be subject to the Law is a slave like Hagar and her son, but those who have faith in Christ are like the descendants of Sarah because she was the mother of Isaac, the child born according to…
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August 2, 2025
Galatians 2:1–14
Introduction Galatians 2:1–14: Paul describes his meeting with the apostles in Jerusalem and reports on a disagreement he had with Peter in Antioch. Today’s Key Verse: Galatians 2:8 GNT [Paul said:] “For by God’s power I was made an apostle to the Gentiles, just as Peter was made an apostle to the Jews. Read 2 Fourteen years later I went back…
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Galatians 1:1–24
Introduction Galatians 1:1–24: Today we begin reading the apostle Paul’s letter to the churches of Galatia, a Roman province in Asia Minor. The letter was written in response to a mounting crisis brought about by other missionaries who were misleading the Gentile believers with false teachings and proclaiming a message contrary to what Paul had taught. In today’s reading, Paul…
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Genesis 50:15–26
Introduction Genesis 50:15–26: After Jacob is buried, everyone returns to Egypt and Joseph reassures his brothers that he will take care of them and their families. Joseph dies in Egypt at the age of 110. Today’s reading concludes the book of Genesis. The relocation of Jacob’s descendants to Egypt sets the stage for the events in the book of Exodus,…
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Genesis 49:29—50:14
Introduction Genesis 49:29—50:14: After blessing his sons (see 49:1–28), Jacob dies and Joseph arranges for his father’s body to be embalmed and then buried in Canaan. Today’s Key Verse: Genesis 50:14 After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him for the funeral. Read 29 Then Jacob commanded his sons,…
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Genesis 48:1–22
Introduction Genesis 48:1–22: In blessing Manasseh and Ephraim, Jacob bestows on his grandsons a status equal to his own sons and thus legitimizes their descendants to be numbered among the twelve tribes of Israel (see Numbers 26; Joshua 13—19). Jacob crosses his hands, placing his right hand on the head of Ephraim, Joseph’s younger son, and his left hand on…
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Genesis 47:13–31
Introduction Genesis 47:13–31: As the famine becomes more severe, Joseph administers the distribution of grain. Jacob and his family remain in Egypt; and as Jacob approaches death, Joseph promises his father that he will bury him with his ancestors in Canaan. Today’s Key Verse: Genesis 47:27 The Israelites lived in Egypt in the region of Goshen, where they became rich…
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