Bible Readings for Our Weekly Walk Together

The readings for Sunday, November 1, 2026, include the following:

Micah 3:5-12

Psalm 43

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

Matthew23:1-12

Please take the time to read and reflect upon God's word for us this week, at The Well Coffeehouse & Church.

Micah 3:5-12

5 Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets

    who lead my people astray,

who cry “Peace”

    when they have something to eat,

but declare war against him

    who puts nothing into their mouths.

6 Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision,

    and darkness to you, without divination.

The sun shall go down on the prophets,

    and the day shall be black over them;

7 the seers shall be disgraced,

    and the diviners put to shame;

they shall all cover their lips,

    for there is no answer from God.

8 But as for me, I am filled with power,

    with the Spirit of the Lord,

    and with justice and might,

to declare to Jacob his transgression

    and to Israel his sin.

9 Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob

    and rulers of the house of Israel,

who detest justice

    and make crooked all that is straight,

10 who build Zion with blood

    and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 Its heads give judgment for a bribe;

    its priests teach for a price;

    its prophets practice divination for money;

yet they lean on the Lord and say,

    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?

    No disaster shall come upon us.”

12 Therefore because of you

    Zion shall be plowed as a field;

Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,

    and the mountain of the house a wooded height.

Psalm 43

1  Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause

    against an ungodly people,

from the deceitful and unjust man

    deliver me!

2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge;

    why have you rejected me?

Why do I go about mourning

    because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 Send out your light and your truth;

    let them lead me;

let them bring me to your holy hill

    and to your dwelling!

4 Then I will go to the altar of God,

    to God my exceeding joy,

and I will praise you with the lyre,

    O God, my God.

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,

    and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

    my salvation and my God.

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 (ESV)

9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. 11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Matthew 23:1-12 (ESV)

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, 3 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. 4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues 7 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others. 8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. 11 The greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.