Bible Reading January 12 (World English Bible)
Genesis
12
Gen
12:1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and
from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I
will show you.
Gen
12:2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make
your name great. You will be a blessing.
Gen
12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who
curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
Gen
12:4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him.
Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Gen
12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their
substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten
in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the
land of Canaan they came.
Gen
12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the
oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
Gen
12:7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land
to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared
to him.
Gen
12:8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and
pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east.
There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
Gen
12:9 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.
Gen
12:10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to
live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Gen
12:11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he
said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a
beautiful woman to look at.
Gen
12:12 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they
will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save
you alive.
Gen
12:13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me
for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
Gen
12:14 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians
saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Gen
12:15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh;
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Gen
12:16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle,
male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and
camels.
Gen
12:17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Gen
12:18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you
have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
Gen
12:19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be
my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
Gen
12:20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on
the way with his wife and all that he had.
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.
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