Bible Reading
January 11
The World English Bible
Jan.
11
Genesis
11
Gen
11:1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Gen
11:2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in
the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Gen
11:3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and
burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used
tar for mortar.
Gen
11:4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a
tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name,
lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
Gen
11:5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men built.
Gen
11:6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have
all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will
be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Gen
11:7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that
they may not understand one another's speech."
Gen
11:8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of
all the earth. They stopped building the city.
Gen
11:9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh
confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered
them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Gen
11:10 This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one
hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after
the flood.
Gen
11:11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of
Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Gen
11:12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of
Shelah.
Gen
11:13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the
father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Gen
11:14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
Gen
11:15 and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the
father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Gen
11:16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
Gen
11:17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the
father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Gen
11:18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
Gen
11:19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father
of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Gen
11:20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
Gen
11:21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father
of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Gen
11:22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
Gen
11:23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of
Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Gen
11:24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Gen
11:25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the
father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Gen
11:26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
Gen
11:27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah
became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father
of Lot.
Gen
11:28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth,
in Ur of the Chaldees.
Gen
11:29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was
Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran
who was also the father of Iscah.
Gen
11:30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.
Gen
11:31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son,
and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth
from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to
Haran and lived there.
Gen
11:32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in
Haran.
Jan. 11,12
Matthew 6
Mat 6:1 "Be
careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be
seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in
heaven.
Mat 6:2 Therefore when
you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get
glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their
reward.
Mat 6:3 But when you do
merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand
does,
Mat 6:4 so that your
merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret
will reward you openly.
Mat 6:5 "When you
pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and
pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they
may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received
their reward.
Mat 6:6 But you, when
you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door,
pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in
secret will reward you openly.
Mat 6:7 In praying,
don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that
they will be heard for their much speaking.
Mat 6:8 Therefore don't
be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you
ask him.
Mat 6:9 Pray like this:
'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Mat 6:10 Let your
Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
Mat 6:11 Give us today
our daily bread.
Mat 6:12 Forgive us our
debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
Mat 6:13 Bring us not
into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the
Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'
Mat 6:14 "For if
you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you.
Mat 6:15 But if you
don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive
your trespasses.
Mat 6:16 "Moreover
when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they
disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting.
Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Mat 6:17 But you, when
you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;
Mat 6:18 so that you
are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in
secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Mat 6:19 "Don't
lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust
consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Mat 6:20 but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume,
and where thieves don't break through and steal;
Mat 6:21 for where your
treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mat 6:22 "The lamp
of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole
body will be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if your
eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore
the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Mat 6:24 "No one
can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the
other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You
can't serve both God and Mammon.
Mat 6:25 Therefore, I
tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what
you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life
more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Mat 6:26 See the birds
of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather
into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more
value than they?
Mat 6:27 "Which of
you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
Mat 6:28 Why are you
anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,
Mat 6:29 yet I tell you
that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 But if God so
clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is
thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little
faith?
Mat 6:31 "Therefore
don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?'
or, 'With what will we be clothed?'
Mat 6:32 For the
Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows
that you need all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek first
God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be
given to you as well.
Mat 6:34 Therefore
don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for
itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.
