Bible Reading April 28-30 (World English Bible)
Deuteronomy
11, 12
Deu
11:1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his
instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, always.
Deu
11:2 Know this day: for I don't speak with your children who have
not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God,
his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
Deu
11:3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of
Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
Deu
11:4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to
their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them
as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this
day;
Deu
11:5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to
this place;
Deu
11:6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the
son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that
followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
Deu
11:7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he
did.
Deu
11:8 Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command
you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
where you go over to possess it;
Deu
11:9 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh
swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land
flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
11:10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land
of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and
watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
Deu
11:11 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of
hills and valleys, and
drinks water of the rain of the sky,
Deu
11:12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh
your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the
end of the year.
Deu
11:13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my
commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deu
11:14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the
former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain,
and your new wine, and your oil.
Deu
11:15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you
shall eat and be full.
Deu
11:16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you
turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Deu
11:17 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up
the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield
its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh
gives you.
Deu
11:18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they
shall be for symbols between your eyes.
Deu
11:19 You shall teach them your children, talking 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
11:20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on
your gates;
Deu
11:21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give
them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
Deu
11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I
command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to cleave to him;
Deu
11:23 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you,
and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than
yourselves.
Deu
11:24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be
yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river
Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.
Deu
11:25 No man shall be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God
shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that
you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.
Deu
11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
Deu
11:27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of
Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;
Deu
11:28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of
Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you
this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
Deu
11:29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the
land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on
Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Deu
11:30 Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going
down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the
Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
Deu
11:31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the
land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and
dwell therein.
Deu
11:32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances
which I set before you this day.
Deu
12:1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall
observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deu
12:2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations
that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains,
and on the hills, and under every green tree:
Deu
12:3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their
pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the
engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out
of that place.
Deu
12:4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
Deu
12:5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all
your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall
seek, and there you shall come;
Deu
12:6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and
your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your
herd and of your flock:
Deu
12:7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall
rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in
which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
Deu
12:8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
Deu
12:9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
12:10 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which
Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all
your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;
Deu
12:11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring
all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice
vows which you vow to Yahweh.
Deu
12:12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons,
and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants,
and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion
nor inheritance with you.
Deu
12:13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt
offerings in every place that you see;
Deu
12:14 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your
tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you
shall do all that I command you.
Deu
12:15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your
gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing
of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean
may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
Deu
12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the
earth as water.
Deu
12:17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or
of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of
your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill
offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
Deu
12:18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place
which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your
daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the
Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh
your God in all that you put your hand to.
Deu
12:19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as
long as you live in your land.
Deu
12:20 When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has
promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul
desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your
soul.
Deu
12:21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his
name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and
of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you;
and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
Deu
12:22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat
of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
Deu
12:23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is
the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Deu
12:24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as
water.
Deu
12:25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with
your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the
eyes of Yahweh.
Deu
12:26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall
take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:
Deu
12:27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the
blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your
sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and
you shall eat the flesh.
Deu
12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it
may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when
you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
Deu
12:29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before
you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and
dwell in their land;
Deu
12:30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them,
after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not
inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their
gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deu
12:31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination
to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even
their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their
gods.
Deu
12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do:
you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy
13, 14
Deu
13:1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
Deu
13:2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to
you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known,
and let us serve them;
Deu
13:3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that
dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether
you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deu
13:4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep
his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and
cleave to him.
Deu
13:5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death,
because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God
commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the
midst of you.
Deu
13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your
own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other
gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
Deu
13:7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or
far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end
of the earth;
Deu
13:8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall
your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal
him:
Deu
13:9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him
to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deu
13:10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has
sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deu
13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more
such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
Deu
13:12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which
Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,
Deu
13:13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and
have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and
serve other gods, which you have not known;
Deu
13:14 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently;
and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is done in the midst of you,
Deu
13:15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the
edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and
its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
Deu
13:16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street,
and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to
Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be
built again.
Deu
13:17 There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand;
that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you
mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn
to your fathers;
Deu
13:18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep
all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which
is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
Deu
14:1 You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Deu
14:2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has
chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples
who are on the face of the earth.
Deu
14:3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Deu
14:4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and
the goat,
Deu
14:5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat,
and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.
Deu
14:6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in
two, and
chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
Deu
14:7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and
the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they
are unclean to you.
Deu
14:8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud,
is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their
carcasses you shall not touch.
Deu
14:9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has
fins and scales may you eat;
Deu
14:10 and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat;
it is unclean to you.
Deu
14:11 Of all clean birds you may eat.
Deu
14:12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and
the vulture, and the osprey,
Deu
14:13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
Deu
14:14 and every raven after its kind,
Deu
14:15 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk
after its kind,
Deu
14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
Deu
14:17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
Deu
14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe,
and the bat.
Deu
14:19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not
be eaten.
Deu
14:20 Of all clean birds you may eat.
Deu
14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may
give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates,
that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a
holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its
mother's milk.
Deu
14:22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that
which comes forth from the field year by year.
Deu
14:23 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your
grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your
herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God
always.
Deu
14:24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to
carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your
God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall
bless you;
Deu
14:25 then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in
your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose:
Deu
14:26 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires,
for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for
whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh
your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
Deu
14:27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake
him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deu
14:28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the
tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within
your gates:
Deu
14:29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with
you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the
widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your
hand which you do.
Deuteronomy
15, 16
Deu
15:1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
Deu
15:2 This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release
that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been
proclaimed.
Deu
15:3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with
your brother your hand shall release.
Deu
15:4 However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will
surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance to possess it;)
Deu
15:5 if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,
to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
Deu
15:6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you
shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall
rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deu
15:7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of
your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall
not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
Deu
15:8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely
lend him sufficient for his need in that
which he wants.
Deu
15:9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying,
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be
evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry
to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Deu
15:10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved
when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God
will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand
to.
Deu
15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I
command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother,
to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
Deu
15:12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to
you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let
him go free from you.
Deu
15:13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go
empty:
Deu
15:14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of
your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God
has blessed you, you shall give to him.
Deu
15:15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of
Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this
thing today.
Deu
15:16 It shall be, if he tells you, I will not go out from you;
because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
Deu
15:17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to
the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female
servant you shall do likewise.
Deu
15:18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from
you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you
six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
Deu
15:19 All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your
flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work
with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your
flock.
Deu
15:20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the
place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
Deu
15:21 If it have any blemish, as if it
be lame or blind, any ill blemish
whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
Deu
15:22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean
shall eat it
alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
Deu
15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the
ground as water.
Deu
16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your
God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out
of Egypt by night.
Deu
16:2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the
flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there.
Deu
16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat
unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction;
for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may
remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the
days of your life.
Deu
16:4 There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven
days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first
day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Deu
16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates,
which Yahweh your God gives you;
Deu
16:6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even,
at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out
of Egypt.
Deu
16:7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your
tents.
Deu
16:8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day
shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work
therein.
Deu
16:9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you
begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to
number seven weeks.
Deu
16:10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a
tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give,
according as Yahweh your God blesses you:
Deu
16:11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your
son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female
servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there.
Deu
16:12 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and
you shall observe and do these statutes.
Deu
16:13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you
have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
Deu
16:14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and
your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and
the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who
are within your gates.
Deu
16:15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the
place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless
you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you
shall be altogether joyful.
Deu
16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before
Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
Deu
16:17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
Deu
16:18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which
Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall
judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deu
16:19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons;
neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of
the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deu
16:20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may
live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
16:21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of
tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for
yourselves.
Deu
16:22 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your
God hates.
Luke 16
Luk 16:1
He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who
had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was
wasting his possessions.
Luk 16:2
He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you?
Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be
manager.'
Luk 16:3
"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that
my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have
strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
Luk 16:4
I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management,
they may receive me into their houses.'
Luk 16:5
Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first,
'How much do you owe to my lord?'
Luk 16:6
He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill,
and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
Luk 16:7
Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred
cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
Luk 16:8
"His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done
wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation,
wiser than the children of the light.
Luk 16:9
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous
mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal
tents.
Luk 16:10
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who
is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Luk 16:11
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon,
who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Luk 16:12
If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will
give you that which is your own?
Luk 16:13
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the
other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."
Luk 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things,
and they scoffed at him.
Luk 16:15
He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the
sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted
among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Luk 16:16
The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good
News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his
way into it.
Luk 16:17
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny
stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
Luk 16:18
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits
adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits
adultery.
Luk 16:19
"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple
and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Luk 16:20
A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Luk 16:21
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's
table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luk 16:22
It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the
angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
Luk 16:23
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham
far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
Luk 16:24
He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send
Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my
tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
Luk 16:25
"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime,
received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things.
But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
Luk 16:26
Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed,
that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that
none may cross over from there to us.'
Luk 16:27
"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him
to my father's house;
Luk 16:28
for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't
also come into this place of torment.'
Luk 16:29
"But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let
them listen to them.'
Luk 16:30
"He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the
dead, they will repent.'
Luk 16:31
"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the
prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'
"
Luke 17
Luk 17:1
He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of
stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!
Luk 17:2
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck,
and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one
of these little ones to stumble.
Luk 17:3
Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he
repents, forgive him.
Luk 17:4
If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times
returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
Luk 17:5
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
Luk 17:6
The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed,
you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in
the sea,' and it would obey you.
Luk 17:7
But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping
sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come
immediately and sit down at the table,'
Luk 17:8
and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself
properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall
eat and drink'?
Luk 17:9
Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were
commanded? I think not.
Luk 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are
commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our
duty.' "
Luk 17:11
It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was passing
along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
Luk 17:12
As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met
him, who stood at a distance.
Luk 17:13
They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy
on us!"
Luk 17:14
When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to
the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed.
Luk 17:15
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying
God with a loud voice.
Luk 17:16
He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a
Samaritan.
Luk 17:17
Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the
nine?
Luk 17:18
Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this
stranger?"
Luk 17:19
Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has
healed you."
Luk 17:20
Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he
answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with
observation;
Luk 17:21
neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold,
the Kingdom of God is within you."
Luk 17:22
He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will
desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see
it.
Luk 17:23
They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away,
nor follow after them,
Luk 17:24
for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the
sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man
be in his day.
Luk 17:25
But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this
generation.
Luk 17:26
As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the
days of the Son of Man.
Luk 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came,
and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:28
Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they
drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
Luk 17:29
but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and
sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:30
It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
Luk 17:31
In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the
house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the
field likewise not turn back.
Luk 17:32
Remember Lot's wife!
Luk 17:33
Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life
preserves it.
Luk 17:34
I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The
one will be taken, and the other will be left.
Luk 17:35
There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the
other will be left."
Luk 17:36
Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left."
Luk 17:37
They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them,
"Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered
together."
