Bible Reading January 18 (World English Bible)
Genesis
18
Gen
18:1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the
tent door in the heat of the day.
Gen
18:2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood
opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent
door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Gen
18:3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your
sight, please don't go away from your servant.
Gen
18:4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree.
Gen
18:5 I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart.
After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your
servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
Gen
18:6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly
make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
Gen
18:7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf,
and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
Gen
18:8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and
set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
Gen
18:9 They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? He said,
"See, in the tent."
Gen
18:10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season
comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah
heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Gen
18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Gen
18:12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown
old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
Gen
18:13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying,
'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
Gen
18:14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return
to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
Gen
18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she
was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."
Gen
18:16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham
went with them to see them on their way.
Gen
18:17 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
Gen
18:18 seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
Gen
18:19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his
children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of
Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may
bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
Gen
18:20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
great, and because their sin is very grievous,
Gen
18:21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as
the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."
Gen
18:22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham
stood yet before Yahweh.
Gen
18:23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the
righteous with the wicked?
Gen
18:24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you
consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in
it?
Gen
18:25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the
righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the
wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the
earth do right?"
Gen
18:26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within
the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
Gen
18:27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to
speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
Gen
18:28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you
destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will
not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
Gen
18:29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are
forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the
forty's sake."
Gen
18:30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will
speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I
will not do it, if I find thirty there."
Gen
18:31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to
the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I
will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
Gen
18:32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will
speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I
will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
Gen
18:33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with
Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
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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