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Here’s your Bible Gateway verse-of-the-day calendar for the month of September. Click each link below to read the verse in your preferred translation — or scroll to the bottom to download the image (or PDF) of all verse references.
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Bible Gateway’s Verses of the Day for September
| Day | Verse |
|---|---|
| 1 | Proverbs 22:6 |
| 2 | Psalm 119:64 |
| 3 | Isaiah 48:17 |
| 4 | 2 Timothy 1:13–14 |
| 5 | Matthew 28:18–20 (How did Jesus make disciples?) |
| 6 | John 14:23 |
| 7 | Colossians 1:28 |
| 8 | Psalm 143:10 |
| 9 | Titus 2:2 |
| 10 | Isaiah 46:4 |
| 11 | Psalm 121:1–2 |
| 12 | Philippians 4:4 |
| 13 | 1 Peter 3:8 |
| 14 | Philippians 2:1–2 |
| 15 | 1 John 4:16 |
| 16 | James 3:13 |
| 17 | Ephesians 5:1 |
| 18 | Philippians 2:3–4 (How to cultivate Christlike humility like Paul.) |
| 19 | Ephesians 4:29 |
| 20 | Joel 2:23 |
| 21 | 2 Corinthians 13:14 (Finding the Trinity throughout the Bible.) |
| 22 | Romans 15:7 |
| 23 | Romans 5:3–4 (The power of boasting in weakness and brokenness.) |
| 24 | Hebrews 10:35–36 |
| 25 | 1 John 2:1 |
| 26 | Hebrews 10:30–31 |
| 27 | Matthew 6:33 (Discover this verse’s context in the Sermon on the Mount.) |
| 28 | 1 Corinthians 2:14 |
| 29 | John 3:20–21 |
| 30 | Philippians 1:9–10 |
The Teacher Who Grieves: A Reflection on Isaiah 48:17
Most of us have been on both sides of this: We’ve sat in a room where someone poured out everything they knew and we couldn’t be bothered to receive it. And we’ve been the one pouring — for a student, a child, an employee, a friend — watching our best effort land on someone who had already decided not to hear it.
That’s the experience Isaiah 48:17 (our verse of the day for September 3) speaks to:
“This is what the Lord says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
‘I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go.'” (NIV)
Read quickly, this is reassurance. God knows what’s best; God will show me the way. That reading isn’t wrong — but it is incomplete, because it misses what surrounds the verse.
The Expositor’s Bible Commentary (Abridged Edition): Old Testament — a trusted resource available with Bible Gateway Plus — names it directly:
“Every sensitive teacher knows the pain of heart that comes when one pours oneself out for one’s students who prove to be unteachable. Israel proved to be like that (cf. v.8); and God expresses his deep concern for them, because they are themselves the losers.”
Seeing that bigger picture reframes the verse entirely. This isn’t a calm announcement of divine competence. It’s the voice of a teacher whose students won’t learn — and whose grief is not for himself but for them. God isn’t diminished by being ignored. We are.
This is a perfect example of the power of context. Isaiah 48 opens with a people who invoked God’s name without meaning it, who claimed the covenant while living outside it. God calls them stubborn. And then, in verse 17, he identifies himself as their teacher anyway. The correction and the offer arrive in the same breath.
Notice what that means about God’s patience. A teacher who had given up would say nothing further. This one keeps teaching — keeps directing, keeps pointing to what is best — with full knowledge of how the last several centuries have gone.
According to the commentary, “The language used does not exclude all possibility of penitent amendment, as if all hope had gone” (emphasis added).
There is an invitation buried in the grief. This verse isn’t a verdict on how teachable you’ve been. It’s a standing offer from someone who has not stopped teaching.
So the question the passage leaves is simple, albeit uncomfortable: What has God been trying to teach you that you’ve decided not to learn? Not the thing you don’t know — the thing you do know and keep setting aside.
He teaches what is best for you. The only variable in the verse is whether you’re listening.
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