Bible Reading
January 25
The World English Bible
Jan.
25
Genesis
25
Gen
25:1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
Gen
25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Gen
25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of
Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
Gen
25:4 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.
All these were the children of Keturah.
Gen
25:5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
Gen
25:6 but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He
sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to
the east country.
Gen
25:7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he
lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Gen
25:8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Gen
25:9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite,
which is before Mamre,
Gen
25:10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth.
Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
Gen
25:11 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac,
his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
Gen
25:12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael,
Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to
Abraham.
Gen
25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael,
Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Gen
25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Gen
25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Gen
25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by
their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according
to their nations.
Gen
25:17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred
thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered
to his people.
Gen
25:18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you
go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
Gen
25:19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's
son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Gen
25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter
of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian,
to be his wife.
Gen
25:21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren.
Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Gen
25:22 The children struggled together within her. She said, "If
it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.
Gen
25:23 Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples
will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger
than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
Gen
25:24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there
were twins in her womb.
Gen
25:25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They
named him Esau.
Gen
25:26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on
Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she
bore them.
Gen
25:27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field.
Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Gen
25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah
loved Jacob.
Gen
25:29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was
famished.
Gen
25:30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red
stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
Gen
25:31 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."
Gen
25:32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the
birthright to me?"
Gen
25:33 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He
sold his birthright to Jacob.
Gen
25:34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank,
rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
Jan. 25, 26
Matthew 13
Mat 13:1 On that day
Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
Mat 13:2 Great
multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat,
and all the multitude stood on the beach.
Mat 13:3 He spoke to
them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out
to sow.
Mat 13:4 As he sowed,
some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured
them.
Mat 13:5 Others fell on
rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they
sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
Mat 13:6 When the sun
had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they
withered away.
Mat 13:7 Others fell
among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Mat 13:8 Others fell on
good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some
sixty, and some thirty.
Mat 13:9 He who has
ears to hear, let him hear."
Mat 13:10 The disciples
came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Mat 13:11 He answered
them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom
of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Mat 13:12 For whoever
has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever
doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
Mat 13:13 Therefore I
speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and
hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:14 In them the
prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will
hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in
no way perceive:
Mat 13:15 for this
people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing,
they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with
their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and
should turn again; and I would heal them.'
Mat 13:16 "But
blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Mat 13:17 For most
certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to
see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the
things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
Mat 13:18 "Hear,
then, the parable of the farmer.
Mat 13:19 When anyone
hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil
one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart.
This is what was sown by the roadside.
Mat 13:20 What was sown
on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately
with joy receives it;
Mat 13:21 yet he has no
root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or
persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
Mat 13:22 What was sown
among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of
this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he
becomes unfruitful.
Mat 13:23 What was sown
on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands
it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one
hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
Mat 13:24 He set
another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is
like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
Mat 13:25 but while
people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the
wheat, and went away.
Mat 13:26 But when the
blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds
appeared also.
Mat 13:27 The servants
of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good
seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
Mat 13:28 "He said
to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do
you want us to go and gather them up?'
Mat 13:29 "But he
said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you
root up the wheat with them.
Mat 13:30 Let both grow
together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the
reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in
bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn." ' "
Mat 13:31 He set
another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is
like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his
field;
Mat 13:32 which indeed
is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than
the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and
lodge in its branches."
Mat 13:33 He spoke
another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast,
which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was
all leavened."
Mat 13:34 Jesus spoke
all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a
parable, he didn't speak to them,
Mat 13:35 that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I
will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the
foundation of the world."
Mat 13:36 Then Jesus
sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came
to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds
of the field."
Mat 13:37 He answered
them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
Mat 13:38 the field is
the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom;
and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
Mat 13:39 The enemy who
sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the
reapers are angels.
Mat 13:40 As therefore
the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be
at the end of this age.
Mat 13:41 The Son of
Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom
all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,
Mat 13:42 and will cast
them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing
of teeth.
Mat 13:43 Then the
righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their
Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:44 "Again,
the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a
man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has,
and buys that field.
Mat 13:45 "Again,
the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine
pearls,
Mat 13:46 who having
found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and
bought it.
Mat 13:47 "Again,
the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea,
and gathered some fish of every kind,
Mat 13:48 which, when
it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered
the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
Mat 13:49 So will it be
in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the
wicked from among the righteous,
Mat 13:50 and will cast
them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the
gnashing of teeth."
Mat 13:51 Jesus said to
them, "Have you understood all these things?" They answered
him, "Yes, Lord."
Mat 13:52 He said to
them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in
the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings
out of his treasure new and old things."
Mat 13:53 It happened
that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
Mat 13:54 Coming into
his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were
astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom, and
these mighty works?
Mat 13:55 Isn't this
the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his brothers,
James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
Mat 13:56 Aren't all of
his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these
things?"
Mat 13:57 They were
offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not
without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."
Mat 13:58 He didn't do
many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
