Bible Reading January 17 (World English Bible)
Genesis
17
Gen
17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram,
and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be
blameless.
Gen
17:2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply
you exceedingly."
Gen
17:3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
Gen
17:4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be
the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen
17:5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name
will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of
nations.
Gen
17:6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations
of you. Kings will come out of you.
Gen
17:7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed
after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant,
to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Gen
17:8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where
you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession. I will be their God."
Gen
17:9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my
covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
Gen
17:10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you
and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Gen
17:11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It
will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
Gen
17:12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every
male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or
bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.
Gen
17:13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your
money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an
everlasting covenant.
Gen
17:14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of
his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has
broken my covenant."
Gen
17:15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall
not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
Gen
17:16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her.
Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of
peoples will come from her."
Gen
17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years
old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
Gen
17:18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before
you!"
Gen
17:19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son.
You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him
for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Gen
17:20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him,
and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He
will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great
nation.
Gen
17:21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear
to you at this set time next year."
Gen
17:22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Gen
17:23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house,
and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of
Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the
same day, as God had said to him.
Gen
17:24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in
the flesh of his foreskin.
Gen
17:25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Gen
17:26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were
circumcised.
Gen
17:27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those
bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Matthew 9
Mat 9:1
He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.
Mat 9:2
Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer
up! Your sins are forgiven you."
Mat 9:3
Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man
blasphemes."
Mat 9:4
Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in
your hearts?
Mat 9:5
For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say,
'Get up, and walk?'
Mat 9:6
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to
forgive sins..." (then he said to the paralytic), "Get up,
and take up your mat, and go up to your house."
Mat 9:7
He arose and departed to his house.
Mat 9:8
But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who
had given such authority to men.
Mat 9:9
As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at
the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He
got up and followed him.
Mat 9:10
It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and
sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Mat 9:11
When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does
your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
Mat 9:12
When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy
have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
Mat 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not
sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance."
Mat 9:14
Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the
Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"
Mat 9:15
Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as
long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the
bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Mat 9:16
No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the
patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.
Mat 9:17
Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins
would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they
put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
Mat 9:18
While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and
worshiped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and
lay your hand on her, and she will live."
Mat 9:19
Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.
Mat 9:20
Behold, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came
behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;
Mat 9:21
for she said within herself, "If I just touch his garment, I
will be made well."
Mat 9:22
But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer
up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well
from that hour.
Mat 9:23
When Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute players,
and the crowd in noisy disorder,
Mat 9:24
he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but
sleeping." They were ridiculing him.
Mat 9:25
But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand,
and the girl arose.
Mat 9:26
The report of this went out into all that land.
Mat 9:27
As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling
out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!"
Mat 9:28
When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus
said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?"
They told him, "Yes, Lord."
Mat 9:29
Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be
it done to you."
Mat 9:30
Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, "See
that no one knows about this."
Mat 9:31
But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.
Mat 9:32
As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was
brought to him.
Mat 9:33
When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes
marveled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in
Israel!"
Mat 9:34
But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, he casts
out demons."
Mat 9:35
Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their
synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing
every disease and every sickness among the people.
Mat 9:36
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for
them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a
shepherd.
Mat 9:37
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful,
but the laborers are few.
Mat 9:38
Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers
into his harvest."
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