Bible Reading May 2 (World English Bible)
Deuteronomy
19, 20
Deu
19:1 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land
Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their
cities, and in their houses;
Deu
19:2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your
land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
Deu
19:3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your
land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts,
that every manslayer may flee there.
Deu
19:4 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and
live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in
time past;
Deu
19:5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop
wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the
tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor,
so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
Deu
19:6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart
is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him
mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't
hate him in time past.
Deu
19:7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three
cities for yourselves.
Deu
19:8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to
your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to
your fathers;
Deu
19:9 if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you
this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then
you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:
Deu
19:10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land,
which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be
on you.
Deu
19:11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him,
and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies,
and he flees into one of these cities;
Deu
19:12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there,
and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may
die.
Deu
19:13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the
innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Deu
19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of
old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in
the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
Deu
19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,
or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two
witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be
established.
Deu
19:16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify
against him of wrongdoing,
Deu
19:17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall
stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be
in those days;
Deu
19:18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against
his brother;
Deu
19:19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his
brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
Deu
19:20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
Deu
19:21 Your eyes shall not pity; life shall
go for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deu
20:1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see
horses, and chariots, and
a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh
your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Deu
20:2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak to the people,
Deu
20:3 and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to
battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be
afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
Deu
20:4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you.
Deu
20:5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is
there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate it.
Deu
20:6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used
its fruit? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man use its fruit.
Deu
20:7 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has
not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man take her.
Deu
20:8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall
say, What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? let him go
and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.
Deu
20:9 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to
the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of
the people.
Deu
20:10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace to it.
Deu
20:11 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to
you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein
shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
Deu
20:12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against
you, then you shall besiege it:
Deu
20:13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall
strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
Deu
20:14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all
that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to
yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh
your God has given you.
Deu
20:15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off
from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Deu
20:16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives
you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
Deu
20:17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the
Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
Deu
20:18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations,
which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh
your God.
Deu
20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an
axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them
down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of
you?
Deu
20:20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for
food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build
bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
Luke 18
Luk 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not
give up,
Luk 18:2
saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear
God, and didn't respect man.
Luk 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend
me from my adversary!'
Luk 18:4
He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I
neither fear God, nor respect man,
Luk 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she
will wear me out by her continual coming.' "
Luk 18:6
The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
Luk 18:7
Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and
night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Luk 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the
Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
Luk 18:9
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of
their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
Luk 18:10
"Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee,
and the other was a tax collector.
Luk 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank
you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous,
adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luk 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
Luk 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his
eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me,
a sinner!'
Luk 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the
other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who
humbles himself will be exalted."
Luk 18:15
They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch
them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luk 18:16
Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come
to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such
as these.
Luk 18:17
Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of
God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
Luk 18:18
A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I
do to inherit eternal life?"
Luk 18:19
Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good,
except one-God.
Luk 18:20
You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,'
'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and
your mother.' "
Luk 18:21
He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up."
Luk 18:22
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack
one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You
will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."
Luk 18:23
But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very
rich.
Luk 18:24
Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for
those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
Luk 18:25
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than
for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
Luk 18:26
Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
Luk 18:27
But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are
possible with God."
Luk 18:28
Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."
Luk 18:29
He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who
has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for
the Kingdom of God's sake,
Luk 18:30
who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world
to come, eternal life."
Luk 18:31
He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are
going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through
the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
Luk 18:32
For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated
shamefully, and spit on.
Luk 18:33
They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise
again."
Luk 18:34
They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from
them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
Luk 18:35
It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the
road, begging.
Luk 18:36
Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.
Luk 18:37
They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.
Luk 18:38
He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"
Luk 18:39
Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he
cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"
Luk 18:40
Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had
come near, he asked him,
Luk 18:41
"What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I
may see again."
Luk 18:42
Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed
you."
Luk 18:43
Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God.
All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
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