Bible Reading
April 25, 26
The World English Bible
Apr.
25
Deuteronomy
5, 6
Deu
5:1 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the
statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that
you may learn them, and observe to do them.
Deu
5:2 Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deu
5:3 Yahweh didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us,
even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
Deu
5:4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the
midst of the fire,
Deu
5:5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the
word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't
go up onto the mountain;) saying,
Deu
5:6 "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deu
5:7 You shall have no other gods before me.
Deu
5:8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, nor
any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is
in the water under the earth:
Deu
5:9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I,
Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth
generation of those who hate me;
Deu
5:10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me
and keep my commandments.
Deu
5:11 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain:
for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Deu
5:12 "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your
God commanded you.
Deu
5:13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work;
Deu
5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which
you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor
your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your
donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within
your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest
as well as you.
Deu
5:15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of
Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand
and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you
to keep the Sabbath day.
Deu
5:16 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God
commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well
with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
5:17 "You shall not murder.
Deu
5:18 "Neither shall you commit adultery.
Deu
5:19 "Neither shall you steal.
Deu
5:20 "Neither shall you give false testimony against your
neighbor.
Deu
5:21 "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither
shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male
servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything
that is your neighbor's."
Deu
5:22 These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain
out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick
darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on
two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
Deu
5:23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the
darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came
near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deu
5:24 and you said, Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and
his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the
fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he
lives.
Deu
5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will
consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we
shall die.
Deu
5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the
living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and
lived?
Deu
5:27 Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: and tell
us all that Yahweh our God shall tell you; and we will hear it, and
do it.
Deu
5:28 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and
Yahweh said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this
people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that
they have spoken.
Deu
5:29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear
me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with
them, and with their children forever!
Deu
5:30 Go tell them, Return to your tents.
Deu
5:31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the
commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall
teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to
possess it.
Deu
5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has
commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the
left.
Deu
5:33 You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has
commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you,
and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall
possess.
Deu
6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances,
which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them
in the land where you go over to possess it;
Deu
6:2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes
and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and
your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be
prolonged.
Deu
6:3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be
well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God
of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and
honey.
Deu
6:4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one:
Deu
6:5 and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your might.
Deu
6:6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your
heart;
Deu
6:7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall
talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the
way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Deu
6:8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be
for symbols between your eyes.
Deu
6:9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on
your gates.
Deu
6:10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land
which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
Deu
6:11 and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and
cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees,
which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;
Deu
6:12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deu
6:13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and
shall swear by his name.
Deu
6:14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples
who are around you;
Deu
6:15 for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest
the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy
you from off the face of the earth.
Deu
6:16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in
Massah.
Deu
6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God,
and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
Deu
6:18 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of
Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and
possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
Deu
6:19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has
spoken.
Deu
6:20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our
God has commanded you?
Deu
6:21 then you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants in
Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
Deu
6:22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt,
on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
Deu
6:23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to
give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
Deu
6:24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh
our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at
this day.
Deu
6:25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this
commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
Apr.
26
Deuteronomy
7, 8
Deu
7:1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go
to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the
Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations
greater and mightier than you;
Deu
7:2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and
you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall
make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
Deu
7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you
shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your
son.
Deu
7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may
serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against
you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Deu
7:5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down
their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their
Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
Deu
7:6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God
has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all
peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deu
7:7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you
were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all
peoples:
Deu
7:8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath
which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a
mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deu
7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful
God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him
and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
Deu
7:10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them:
he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his
face.
Deu
7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
Deu
7:12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and
keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the
covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:
Deu
7:13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will
also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your
grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock
and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your
fathers to give you.
Deu
7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male
or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
Deu
7:15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the
evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will
lay them on all those who hate you.
Deu
7:16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall
deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve
their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
Deu
7:17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I;
how can I dispossess them?
Deu
7:18 you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what
Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
Deu
7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which
Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all
the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Deu
7:20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until
those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
Deu
7:21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the
midst of you, a great and awesome God.
Deu
7:22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by
little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals
of the field increase on you.
Deu
7:23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will
confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
Deu
7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make
their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able
to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
Deu
7:25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You
shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it
for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to
Yahweh your God.
Deu
7:26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become
a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall
utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Deu
8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you
this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the
land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
Deu
8:2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you
these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to
prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his
commandments, or not.
Deu
8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with
manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he
might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by
everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
Deu
8:4 Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot
swell, these forty years.
Deu
8:5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son,
so Yahweh your God chastens you.
Deu
8:6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in
his ways, and to fear him.
Deu
8:7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into
valleys and hills;
Deu
8:8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and
pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
Deu
8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you
shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out
of whose hills you may dig copper.
Deu
8:10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God
for the good land which he has given you.
Deu
8:11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command
you this day:
Deu
8:12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly
houses, and lived therein;
Deu
8:13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver
and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
Deu
8:14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God,
who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage;
Deu
8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in
which were fiery serpents and scorpions,
and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth
water out of the rock of flint;
Deu
8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers
didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you,
to do you good at your latter end:
Deu
8:17 and lest
you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten
me this wealth.
Deu
8:18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives
you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he
swore to your fathers, as at this day.
Deu
8:19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk
after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against
you this day that you shall surely perish.
Deu
8:20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you
shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your
God.
Apr.
26, 27
Luke
15
Luk
15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him
to hear him.
Luk
15:2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man
welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
Luk
15:3 He told them this parable.
Luk
15:4 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost
one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go
after the one that was lost, until he found it?
Luk
15:5 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders,
rejoicing.
Luk
15:6 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his
neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my
sheep which was lost!'
Luk
15:7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over
one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who
need no repentance.
Luk
15:8 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one
drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek
diligently until she found it?
Luk
15:9 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and
neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma
which I had lost.'
Luk
15:10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner repenting."
Luk
15:11 He said, "A certain man had two sons.
Luk
15:12 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my
share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.
Luk
15:13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this
together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his
property with riotous living.
Luk
15:14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in
that country, and he began to be in need.
Luk
15:15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that
country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luk
15:16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate,
but no one gave him any.
Luk
15:17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants
of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
Luk
15:18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father,
I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
Luk
15:19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of
your hired servants." '
Luk
15:20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still
far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luk
15:21 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven,
and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
Luk
15:22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best
robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his
feet.
Luk
15:23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and
celebrate;
Luk
15:24 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost,
and is found.' They began to celebrate.
Luk
15:25 "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to
the house, he heard music and dancing.
Luk
15:26 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going
on.
Luk
15:27 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has
killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and
healthy.'
Luk
15:28 But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father
came out, and begged him.
Luk
15:29 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have
served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you
never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
Luk
15:30 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living
with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
Luk
15:31 "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all
that is mine is yours.
Luk
15:32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this,
your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is
found.' "
