Bible Reading April 23-24
World English Bible
Deuteronomy
1, 2
Deu
1:1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the
Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deu
1:2 It is eleven days' journey
from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
Deu
1:3 It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the
first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel,
according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them;
Deu
1:4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in
Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
Deu
1:5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare
this law, saying,
Deu
1:6 Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long
enough in this mountain:
Deu
1:7 turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the
Amorites, and to all the places
near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland,
and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites,
and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Deu
1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the
land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
Deu
1:9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you
myself alone:
Deu
1:10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this
day as the stars of the sky for multitude.
Deu
1:11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as
many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
Deu
1:12 How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden,
and your strife?
Deu
1:13 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your
tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
Deu
1:14 You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is
good for us
to do.
Deu
1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and
made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of
hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and
officers, according to your tribes.
Deu
1:16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the
causes between your brothers, and judge
righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is
living with him.
Deu
1:17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the
small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of
man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for
you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
Deu
1:18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should
do.
Deu
1:19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and
terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of
the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh
Barnea.
Deu
1:20 I said to you, You are come to the hill country of the
Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
Deu
1:21 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: go up,
take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to
you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.
Deu
1:22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men
before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word
again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we
shall come.
Deu
1:23 The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one
man for every tribe:
Deu
1:24 and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to
the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
Deu
1:25 They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought
it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land
which Yahweh our God gives to us.
Deu
1:26 Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of
Yahweh your God:
Deu
1:27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated
us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us
into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Deu
1:28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to
melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities
are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the
sons of the Anakim there.
Deu
1:29 Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.
Deu
1:30 Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you,
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
Deu
1:31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your
God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you
went, until you came to this place.
Deu
1:32 Yet in this thing you didn't believe Yahweh your God,
Deu
1:33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to
pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you
should go, and in the cloud by day.
Deu
1:34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore,
saying,
Deu
1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation
see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,
Deu
1:36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him
will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children,
because he has wholly followed Yahweh.
Deu
1:37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also
shall not go in there:
Deu
1:38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in
there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Deu
1:39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and
your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they
shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess
it.
Deu
1:40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness
by the way to the Red Sea.
Deu
1:41 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against
Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God
commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were
forward to go up into the hill country.
Deu
1:42 Yahweh said to me, Tell them, Don't go up, neither fight; for I
am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.
Deu
1:43 So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled
against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up
into the hill country.
Deu
1:44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against
you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to
Hormah.
Deu
1:45 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen
to your voice, nor gave ear to you.
Deu
1:46 So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that
you abode there.
Deu
2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the
way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount
Seir many days.
Deu
2:2 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
Deu
2:3 You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.
Deu
2:4 Command the people, saying, You are to pass through the border
of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they
will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;
Deu
2:5 don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land,
no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I
have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
Deu
2:6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and
you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.
Deu
2:7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your
hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these
forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked
nothing.
Deu
2:8 So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who
dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion
Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deu
2:9 Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them
in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession;
because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
Deu
2:10 (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and
tall, as the Anakim:
Deu
2:11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the
Moabites call them Emim.
Deu
2:12 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau
succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived
in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which
Yahweh gave to them.)
Deu
2:13 Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered. We went over the
brook Zered.
Deu
2:14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we were
come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the
generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the
camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
Deu
2:15 Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them
from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
Deu
2:16 So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead
from among the people,
Deu
2:17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
Deu
2:18 You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:
Deu
2:19 and when you come near over against the children of Ammon,
don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of
the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have
given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
Deu
2:20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived
therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
Deu
2:21 a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh
destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in
their place;
Deu
2:22 as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he
destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and
lived in their place even to this day:
Deu
2:23 and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the
Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived
in their place.)
Deu
2:24 Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the
Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in
battle.
Deu
2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of
you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the
report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.
Deu
2:26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon
king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deu
2:27 Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway,
I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
Deu
2:28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me
water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my
feet,
Deu
2:29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who
dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the
land which Yahweh our God gives us.
Deu
2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for
Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate,
that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.
Deu
2:31 Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and
his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.
Deu
2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to
battle at Jahaz.
Deu
2:33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him,
and his sons, and all his people.
Deu
2:34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed
every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left
none remaining:
Deu
2:35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the
spoil of the cities which we had taken.
Deu
2:36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
and from
the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city
too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
Deu
2:37 only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near;
all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country,
and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
Deuteronomy
3, 4
Deu
3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king
of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at
Edrei.
Deu
3:2 Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and
all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him
as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
Deu
3:3 So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of
Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to
him remaining.
Deu
3:4 We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which
we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the
kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deu
3:5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and
bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
Deu
3:6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon,
utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the
little ones.
Deu
3:7 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for
a prey to ourselves.
Deu
3:8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings
of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the
Arnon to Mount Hermon;
Deu
3:9 (which
Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)
Deu
3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to
Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deu
3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the
Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in
Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four
cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)
Deu
3:12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which
is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead,
and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
Deu
3:13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave
I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all
Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
Deu
3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the
border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even
Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
Deu
3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir.
Deu
3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to
the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of
it, even to the river Jabbok, which is
the border of the children of Ammon;
Deu
3:17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border of
it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of
the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
Deu
3:18 I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given
you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your
brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
Deu
3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I
know that you have much livestock), shall abide in your cities which
I have given you,
Deu
3:20 until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they
also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the
Jordan: then you shall return every man to his possession, which I
have given you.
Deu
3:21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen
all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh
do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
Deu
3:22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who
fights for you.
Deu
3:23 I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
Deu
3:24 Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your
greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or
in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your
mighty acts?
Deu
3:25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the
Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Deu
3:26 But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen
to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me
of this matter.
Deu
3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and
northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for
you shall not go over this Jordan.
Deu
3:28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him;
for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to
inherit the land which you shall see.
Deu
3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth Peor.
Deu
4:1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which
I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the
land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
Deu
4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall
you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh
your God which I command you.
Deu
4:3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for
all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed
them from the midst of you.
Deu
4:4 But you who did cling to Yahweh your God are all alive this day.
Deu
4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as
Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the
land where you go in to possess it.
Deu
4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.
Deu
4:7 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them,
as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
Deu
4:8 What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so
righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Deu
4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest
you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from
your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your
children and your children's children;
Deu
4:10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when
Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear
my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live
on the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Deu
4:11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain
burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and
thick darkness.
Deu
4:12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the
voice of words, but you saw no form; only you
heard a voice.
Deu
4:13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to
perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables
of stone.
Deu
4:14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to
possess it.
Deu
4:15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner
of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst
of the fire.
Deu
4:16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved
image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deu
4:17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness
of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Deu
4:18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the
likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
Deu
4:19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the
sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are
drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God
has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
Deu
4:20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron
furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at
this day.
Deu
4:21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore
that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to
that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance:
Deu
4:22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but
you shall go over, and possess that good land.
Deu
4:23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh
your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in
the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
Deu
4:24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Deu
4:25 When you shall father children, and children's children, and
you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that
which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to
anger;
Deu
4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over
the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but
shall utterly be destroyed.
Deu
4:27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be
left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you
away.
Deu
4:28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and
stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Deu
4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall
find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all
your soul.
Deu
4:30 When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on
you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and
listen to his voice:
Deu
4:31 for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you,
neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he
swore to them.
Deu
4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you,
since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end
of the sky to the other, whether there has been any
such thing as this great thing is, or
has been heard like it?
Deu
4:33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Deu
4:34 Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of
another
nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a
mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before
your eyes?
Deu
4:35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God.
There is no one else besides him.
Deu
4:36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might
instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you
heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deu
4:37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed
after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great
power, out of Egypt;
Deu
4:38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than
you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as
at this day.
Deu
4:39 Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh
he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none
else.
Deu
4:40 You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I
command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land,
which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
Deu
4:41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the
sunrise;
Deu
4:42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor
unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one
of these cities he might live:
Deu
4:43 namely,
Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites;
and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the
Manassites.
Deu
4:44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Deu
4:45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they
came forth out of Egypt,
Deu
4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the
land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses
and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.
Deu
4:47 They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan
toward the sunrise;
Deu
4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
Deu
4:49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea
of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
Luke 13
Luk
13:1 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about
the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Luk
13:2 Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans
were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they
suffered such things?
Luk
13:3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in
the same way.
Luk
13:4 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed
them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men
who dwell in Jerusalem?
Luk
13:5 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in
the same way."
Luk
13:6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree
planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found
none.
Luk
13:7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have
come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down.
Why does it waste the soil?'
Luk
13:8 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig
around it, and fertilize it.
Luk
13:9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it
down.' "
Luk
13:10 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
Luk
13:11 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten
herself up.
Luk
13:12 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman,
you are freed from your infirmity."
Luk
13:13 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up
straight, and glorified God.
Luk
13:14 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had
healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six
days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be
healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
Luk
13:15 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't
each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the
Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
Luk
13:16 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan
had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the
Sabbath day?"
Luk
13:17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were
disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious
things that were done by him.
Luk
13:18 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall
I compare it?
Luk
13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put
in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of
the sky lodged in its branches."
Luk
13:20 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of
God?
Luk
13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures
of flour, until it was all leavened."
Luk
13:22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and
traveling on to Jerusalem.
Luk
13:23 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?"
He said to them,
Luk
13:24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell
you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
Luk
13:25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut
the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door,
saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you,
'I don't know you or where you come from.'
Luk
13:26 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your
presence, and you taught in our streets.'
Luk
13:27 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'
Luk
13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God,
and yourselves being thrown outside.
Luk
13:29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will
sit down in the Kingdom of God.
Luk
13:30 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and
there are some who are first who will be last."
Luk
13:31 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get
out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."
Luk
13:32 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast
out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I
complete my mission.
Luk
13:33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the
next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of
Jerusalem.'
Luk
13:34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and
stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your
children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings,
and you refused!
Luk
13:35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you
will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!' "
Luke 14
Luk
14:1 It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers
of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching
him.
Luk
14:2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
Luk
14:3 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying,
"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
Luk
14:4 But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him
go.
Luk
14:5 He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell
into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"
Luk
14:6 They couldn't answer him regarding these things.
Luk
14:7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed
how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
Luk
14:8 "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't
sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you
might be invited by him,
Luk
14:9 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make
room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the
lowest place.
Luk
14:10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so
that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up
higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at
the table with you.
Luk
14:11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever
humbles himself will be exalted."
Luk
14:12 He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you
make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your
brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might
also return the favor, and pay you back.
Luk
14:13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame,
or the blind;
Luk
14:14 and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources
to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the
righteous."
Luk
14:15 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these
things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the
Kingdom of God!"
Luk
14:16 But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper,
and he invited many people.
Luk
14:17 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were
invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'
Luk
14:18 They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to
him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me
excused.'
Luk
14:19 "Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I
must go try them out. Please have me excused.'
Luk
14:20 "Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I
can't come.'
Luk
14:21 "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then
the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out
quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the
poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'
Luk
14:22 "The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded,
and there is still room.'
Luk
14:23 "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways
and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luk
14:24 For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will
taste of my supper.' "
Luk
14:25 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said
to them,
Luk
14:26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father,
mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life
also, he can't be my disciple.
Luk
14:27 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't
be my disciple.
Luk
14:28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit
down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
Luk
14:29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to
finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
Luk
14:30 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'
Luk
14:31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war,
will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten
thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luk
14:32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an
envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.
Luk
14:33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he
has, he can't be my disciple.
Luk
14:34 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with
what do you season it?
Luk
14:35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is
thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
