Bible Reading January 26 (World English Bible)
Genesis
26
Gen
26:1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the
Philistines, to Gerar.
Gen
26:2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into
Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Gen
26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless
you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I
will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Gen
26:4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will
give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations
of the earth be blessed,
Gen
26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
Gen
26:6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
Gen
26:7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She
is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife,"
lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for
Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."
Gen
26:8 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech
king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold,
Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Gen
26:9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is
your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?' " Isaac said to
him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.' "
Gen
26:10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of
the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have
brought guilt on us!"
Gen
26:11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who
touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
Gen
26:12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one
hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
Gen
26:13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became
very great.
Gen
26:14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a
great household. The Philistines envied him.
Gen
26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the
days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled
with earth.
Gen
26:16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much
mightier than we."
Gen
26:17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar,
and lived there.
Gen
26:18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the
days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them
after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by
which his father had called them.
Gen
26:19 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
Gen
26:20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying,
"The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek,
because they contended with him.
Gen
26:21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He
called its name Sitnah.
Gen
26:22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue
over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh
has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
Gen
26:23 He went up from there to Beersheba.
Gen
26:24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am
the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you,
and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's
sake."
Gen
26:25 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and
pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
Gen
26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his
friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Gen
26:27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you
hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
Gen
26:28 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We
said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you,
and let us make a covenant with you,
Gen
26:29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and
as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in
peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
Gen
26:30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Gen
26:31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to
another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen
26:32 It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told
him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We
have found water."
Gen
26:33 He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is
Beersheba to this day.
Gen
26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the
Hittite.
Gen
26:35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.
Matthew 13
Mat 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
Mat 13:2
Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and
sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
Mat 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a
farmer went out to sow.
Mat 13:4
As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and
devoured them.
Mat 13:5
Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and
immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
Mat 13:6
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root,
they withered away.
Mat 13:7
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Mat 13:8
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times
as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Mat 13:9
He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mat 13:10
The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them
in parables?"
Mat 13:11
He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of
the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Mat 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance,
but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which
he has.
Mat 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see,
and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing
you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see,
and will in no way perceive:
Mat 13:15
for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of
hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might
perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their
heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'
Mat 13:16
"But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for
they hear.
Mat 13:17
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men
desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to
hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
Mat 13:18
"Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
Mat 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it,
the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his
heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Mat 13:20
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and
immediately with joy receives it;
Mat 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When
oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he
stumbles.
Mat 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but
the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word,
and he becomes unfruitful.
Mat 13:23
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and
understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth,
some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
Mat 13:24
He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of
Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
Mat 13:25
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also
among the wheat, and went away.
Mat 13:26
But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel
weeds appeared also.
Mat 13:27
The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't
you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
Mat 13:28
"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants
asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
Mat 13:29
"But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel
weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
Mat 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I
will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and
bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my
barn." ' "
Mat 13:31
He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of
Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed
in his field;
Mat 13:32
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is
greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the
air come and lodge in its branches."
Mat 13:33
He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like
yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until
it was all leavened."
Mat 13:34
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and
without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
Mat 13:35
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet,
saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things
hidden from the foundation of the world."
Mat 13:36
Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His
disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the
darnel weeds of the field."
Mat 13:37
He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
Mat 13:38
the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of
the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
Mat 13:39
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the
age, and the reapers are angels.
Mat 13:40
As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire;
so will it be at the end of this age.
Mat 13:41
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of
his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do
iniquity,
Mat 13:42
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping
and the gnashing of teeth.
Mat 13:43
Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of
their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:44
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the
field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all
that he has, and buys that field.
Mat 13:45
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant
seeking fine pearls,
Mat 13:46
who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that
he had, and bought it.
Mat 13:47
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast
into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
Mat 13:48
which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down,
and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
Mat 13:49
So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth,
and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
Mat 13:50
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the
weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
Mat 13:51
Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?"
They answered him, "Yes, Lord."
Mat 13:52
He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a
disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder,
who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
Mat 13:53
It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed
from there.
Mat 13:54
Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so
that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get
this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Mat 13:55
Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his
brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
Mat 13:56
Aren't all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of
these things?"
Mat 13:57
They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is
not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."
Mat 13:58
He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
If
Christians are to be kind and loving to everyone (Luke 10:29-37), some
question why 2 John 10-11 teaches, “If anyone comes to you and does not
bring this doctrine (‘the doctrine of Christ’—vs. 9), do not receive him into your house nor greet him;
for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds” (emp. added; cf. Wells,
2015). Also, why did Paul instruct Timothy to “shun profane and idle
babblings” (2 Timothy 2:16; 1 Timothy 6:20-21)? Are Christians to shun
those with whom we disagree, and even go so far as not to greet them or
allow them into our homes?
A
certain segment of the American population has succeeded in
perpetrating the notion of “political correctness” (PC) across a broad
base of society. This ideology has infiltrated politics, education, and
religion. While touted as a manifestation of “compassion” and “respect”
for those with whom one disagrees, the fact is that PC seeks to silence
any expression of disagreement that is not in line with its covert
agenda.
. Now imagine trying to find the limit of the same equation, but with the ℎ(t) term in the denominator of the function 
. Over time, the height of the water in the bottle, ℎ(t),
still moves to zero, which results in a situation where one must find
the limit of an equation with a one divided by a zero. You do not have
to know much about math to know that dividing one by zero is a problem.
Such a scenario does not fit the rules. The usual laws do not work. We
call it a “singularity,” and something similar happens when cosmologists
attempt to work out the equations that explain what would occur at the
beginning of the hypothetical Big Bang. This is why Stephen Hawking
said, “The beginning of real time would have been a singularity, at
which the laws of physics would have broken down” (n.d.).