Wednesday Bible Readings

august 13th, 2025

From The Bible

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
(Romans 6:16)

... the spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, ... The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. ...And when Asa heard these words, ... they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; ...... and the LORD gave them rest round about. ...In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, ...Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben–hadad king of Syria, ... saying, ... behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. … And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand. ...And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, ... yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. ¶ And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
(II Chronicles 15:1 the, 2 (to 4th ,), 2 The, 8 (to 1st ,), 12 they, 15 4th and; 16:1 (to 1st ,), 2 (to 2nd ,), 2 saying, 3 behold, 7, 12 (to 1st ,), 12 yet, 13)

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
(James 1:8)

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. ..... ¶ No man can serve two masters: ... Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
(Matthew 6:22, 23 (to .), 24 (to :), 24 Ye)

¶ Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. .... and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, ... saying, .... Let not Hezekiah deceive you: ...Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, ...And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, ... thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; ...Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, ...In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. ...... and prayed unto the LORD, saying, I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. And it came to pass, ... that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ... I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: ...... and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; ...
(II Kings 18:13, 28 and (to 1st ,), 28 saying (to 3rd ,), 29 Let (to 1st :), 30 (to 3rd ,); 19:15 (to 3rd ,), 15 thou (to ;), 19 (to 4th ,); 20:1 (to 1st .), 2–4 and (to 1st ,), 4 that, 5 I (to 2nd :), 6 2nd and (to 2nd ;))

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. ...
(James 4:8 (to 1st .))

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. ...And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, ...... Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; ...After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, ...... Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
(Matthew 4:23; 5:2, 44 Love; 6:9 (to ,), 10 2nd Thy)

... Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
(Luke 10:27 Thou)

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. ...Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: … Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. ...... ¶ And while he yet spake, .... they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, ...... ¶ Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. But he denied before them all, ...Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
(Matthew 26:1, 2, 31 (to :), 33, 34, 47 (to 1st ,), 57 they (to ,), 69, 70 (to 1st ,), 74, 75)

... I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ...O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. ...
(Romans 7:18–20 I, 24, 25 (to 1st .))

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, ...Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
(I Peter 1:13, 14 (to ,), 22)

... All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
(Exodus 24:7 All)

Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in the language of Scripture, “doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 256:19)

The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. vii:18–20)

... God is what the Scriptures declare Him to be, — Life, Truth, Love. Spirit is divine Principle, and divine Principle is Love, and Love is Mind, and Mind is not both good and bad, for God is Mind; therefore there is in reality one Mind only, because there is one God. ... The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates. Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 330:19 God, 25–27 The)

Divine Mind rightly demands man’s entire obedience, affection, and strength. ... Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength. Submission to error superinduces loss of power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 183:21–22, 23)

Carnal beliefs defraud us. They make man an involuntary hypocrite, — producing evil when he would create good, forming deformity when he would outline grace and beauty, injuring those whom he would bless. ... He might say in Bible language: “The good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 263:11–14, 17)

We cannot serve both God and mammon at the same time; but is not this what frail mortals are trying to do?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 346:30–32)

If the student goes away to practise Truth’s teachings only in part, dividing his interests between God and mammon and substituting his own views for Truth, he will inevitably reap the error he sows.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 462:9–12)

The law of Christ, or Truth, makes all things possible to Spirit; but the so-called laws of matter would render Spirit of no avail, and demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing from the basis of one God, one lawmaker.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 182:32–4)

Obedience to material law prevents full obedience to spiritual law, — the law which overcomes material conditions and puts matter under the feet of Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 182:19–22)

Truth, Life, and Love are the only legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine statutes.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 184:12)

Do not believe in any supposed necessity for sin, disease, or death, knowing (as you ought to know) that God never requires obedience to a so-called material law, for no such law exists.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 253:25–28)

Christ Jesus overruled the error which would impose penalties for transgressions of the physical laws of health; he annulled supposed laws of matter, opposed to the harmonies of Spirit, lacking divine authority and having only human approval for their sanction.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 381:31)

Jesus walked on the waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 273:24)

Jesus taught the way of Life by demonstration, that we may understand how this divine Principle heals the sick, casts out error, and triumphs over death. ... By his obedience to God, he demonstrated more spiritually than all others the Principle of being. Hence the force of his admonition, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 25:13–16, 17)

Dost thou “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind”? This command includes much, even the surrender of all merely material sensation, affection, and worship. ... It involves the Science of Life, and recognizes only the divine control of Spirit, in which Soul is our master, and material sense and human will have no place.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 9:17–21 (to 1st .), 22)

Divine Science derives its sanction from the Bible, and the divine origin of Science is demonstrated through the holy influence of Truth in healing sickness and sin. This healing power of Truth must have been far anterior to the period in which Jesus lived. It is as ancient as “the Ancient of days.” It lives through all Life, and extends throughout all space.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 146:23)

The only way to this living Truth, which heals the sick, is found in the Science of divine Mind as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 180:27)

The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 162:9)

Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 167:30)

We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance upon that which is false and grasp the true.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 192:4–5)

You will learn that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey God, to have one Mind, and to love another as yourself.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 496:5)

The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God’s will must be universally done.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 202:3)

Our Father which art in heaven,… Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 16:26 (only); 17:1 (only))

In speechless prayer and reverence, / Dear Lord, I come to Thee; / My heart with love Thou fillest, / Yea, with humility. / My bread and wine Thou art, / With Thee I hold communion; / Thy presence healeth me.

To do Thy will is greater / Than sacrifice can be; / O give me needed courage / Sweet with sincerity. / From earthly thought released, / In speechless prayer and reverence, / Dear Lord, I come to Thee.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 151)

Day by day the manna fell: / O, to learn this lesson well. / Still by constant mercy fed, / Give me, Lord, my daily bread.

Day by day the promise reads, / Daily strength for daily needs: / Cast foreboding fears away; / Take the manna of today.

Lord, my times are in Thy hand: / All my sanguine hopes have planned, / To Thy wisdom I resign, / And would mold my will to Thine.

Thou my daily task shalt give; / Day by day to Thee I live; / So shall added years fulfill / Not my own, my Father’s will.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 46)

My God, my Father, make me strong, / When tasks of life seem hard and long, / To greet them with this triumph song, / Thy will be done.

With confident and humble mind, / My joy in service I would find, / My prayer through every task assigned, / Thy will be done.

Things deemed impossible I dare, / Thine is the call and Thine the care, / Thy wisdom shall the way prepare; / Thy will be done.

Heaven’s music chimes the glad days in, / Hope soars beyond death, pain and sin, / Faith sings in triumph, Love doth win; / Thy will is done.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 190)