Bible Reading January 13, 14, 15 (World English Bible)
Genesis
13
Gen
13:1 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and
Lot with him, into the South.
Gen
13:2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Gen
13:3 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the
place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and
Ai,
Gen
13:4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the
first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
Gen
13:5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and
tents.
Gen
13:6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live
together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live
together.
Gen
13:7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock
and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the
Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
Gen
13:8 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between
me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are
relatives.
Gen
13:9 Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from
me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if
you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
Gen
13:10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan,
that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as
you go to Zoar.
Gen
13:11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled
east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Gen
13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities
of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Gen
13:13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners
against Yahweh.
Gen
13:14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now,
lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward
and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen
13:15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to
your offspring forever.
Gen
13:16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that
if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be
numbered.
Gen
13:17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth;
for I will give it to you."
Gen
13:18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre,
which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
Genesis
14
Gen
14:1 It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch,
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of
Goiim,
Gen
14:2 that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha,
king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).
Gen
14:3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is
the Salt Sea).
Gen
14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
year, they rebelled.
Gen
14:5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who
were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the
Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Gen
14:6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by
the wilderness.
Gen
14:7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh),
and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites,
that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Gen
14:8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of
Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is
Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the
valley of Siddim;
Gen
14:9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and
Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings
against the five.
Gen
14:10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings
of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who
remained fled to the hills.
Gen
14:11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their
food, and went their way.
Gen
14:12 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and
his goods, and departed.
Gen
14:13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he
lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and
brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.
Gen
14:14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led
forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen,
and pursued as far as Dan.
Gen
14:15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants,
and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand
of Damascus.
Gen
14:16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his
relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Gen
14:17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from
the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the
valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
Gen
14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he
was priest of God Most High.
Gen
14:19 He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most
High, possessor of heaven and earth:
Gen
14:20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies
into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
Gen
14:21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and
take the goods to yourself."
Gen
14:22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my
hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Gen
14:23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything
that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
Gen
14:24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men
have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner,
Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."
Genesis
15
Gen
15:1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a
vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your
exceedingly great reward."
Gen
15:2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I
go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of
Damascus?"
Gen
15:3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and,
behold, one born in my house is my heir."
Gen
15:4 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man
will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own
body will be your heir."
Gen
15:5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the
sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He
said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
Gen
15:6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for
righteousness.
Gen
15:7 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of
the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
Gen
15:8 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit
it?"
Gen
15:9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a
female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and
a young pigeon."
Gen
15:10 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle,
and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the
birds.
Gen
15:11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove
them away.
Gen
15:12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now
terror and great darkness fell on him.
Gen
15:13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live
as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They
will afflict them four hundred years.
Gen
15:14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward
they will come out with great wealth,
Gen
15:15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried
in a good old age.
Gen
15:16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the
iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
Gen
15:17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark,
behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these
pieces.
Gen
15:18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To
your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the
great river, the river Euphrates:
Gen
15:19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Gen
15:20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Gen
15:21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the
Jebusites."
Matthew 7
Mat 7:1
"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
Mat 7:2
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with
whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Mat 7:3
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't
consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Mat 7:4
Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your
eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
Mat 7:5
You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then
you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
Mat 7:6
"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your
pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their
feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Mat 7:7
"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock,
and it will be opened for you.
Mat 7:8
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks
it will be opened.
Mat 7:9
Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will
give him a stone?
Mat 7:10
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
Mat 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good
things to those who ask him!
Mat 7:12
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do
to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Mat 7:13
"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is
the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by
it.
Mat 7:14
How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life!
Few are those who find it.
Mat 7:15
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Mat 7:16
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns,
or figs from thistles?
Mat 7:17
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree
produces evil fruit.
Mat 7:18
A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree
produce good fruit.
Mat 7:19
Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into
the fire.
Mat 7:20
Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
Mat 7:21
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the
Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in
heaven.
Mat 7:22
Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in
your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many
mighty works?'
Mat 7:23
Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who
work iniquity.'
Mat 7:24
"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does
them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
Mat 7:25
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on
that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Mat 7:26
Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be
like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
Mat 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on
that house; and it fell-and great was its fall."
Mat 7:28
It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the
multitudes were astonished at his teaching,
Mat 7:29
for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.
Matthew 8
Mat 8:1
When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
Mat 8:2
Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if
you want to, you can make me clean."
Mat 8:3
Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want
to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Mat 8:4
Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show
yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a
testimony to them."
Mat 8:5
When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,
Mat 8:6
and saying, "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed,
grievously tormented."
Mat 8:7
Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."
Mat 8:8
The centurion answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come
under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Mat 8:9
For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I
tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he
comes; and tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
Mat 8:10
When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed,
"Most certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith,
not even in Israel.
Mat 8:11
I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will
sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
Mat 8:12
but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer
darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Mat 8:13
Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for
you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour.
Mat 8:14
When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying
sick with a fever.
Mat 8:15
He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served
him.
Mat 8:16
When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He
cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
Mat 8:17
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the
prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore our
diseases."
Mat 8:18
Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to
depart to the other side.
Mat 8:19
A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you
wherever you go."
Mat 8:20
Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the
sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
Mat 8:21
Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to
go and bury my father."
Mat 8:22
But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury
their own dead."
Mat 8:23
When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.
Mat 8:24
Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was
covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
Mat 8:25
They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We
are dying!"
Mat 8:26
He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?"
Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great
calm.
Mat 8:27
The men marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even
the wind and the sea obey him?"
Mat 8:28
When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes,
two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the
tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.
Mat 8:29
Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you,
Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
Mat 8:30
Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.
Mat 8:31
The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to
go away into the herd of pigs."
Mat 8:32
He said to them, "Go!" They came out, and went into the
herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the
cliff into the sea, and died in the water.
Mat 8:33
Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told
everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with
demons.
Mat 8:34
Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they
begged that he would depart from their borders.
