Bible Reading April 27-29
World English Bible
Deuteronomy
9, 10
Deu
9:1 Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in
to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities
great and fortified up to the sky,
Deu
9:2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know,
and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of
Anak?
Deu
9:3 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes
over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he
will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and
make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
Deu
9:4 Don't say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them
out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought
me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these
nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you.
Deu
9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your
heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of
these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you,
and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu
9:6 Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good
land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked
people.
Deu
9:7 Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to
wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the
land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious
against Yahweh.
Deu
9:8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry
with you to destroy you.
Deu
9:9 When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of
stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you,
then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did
neither eat bread nor drink water.
Deu
9:10 Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the
finger of God; and on them was written
according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Deu
9:11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that
Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the
covenant.
Deu
9:12 Yahweh said to me, Arise, get down quickly from hence; for your
people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted
themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I
commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Deu
9:13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this
people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
Deu
9:14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name
from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and
greater than they.
Deu
9:15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain
was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my
two hands.
Deu
9:16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God;
you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly
out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
Deu
9:17 I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two
hands, and broke them before your eyes.
Deu
9:18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and
forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all
your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
Deu
9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which
Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to
me that time also.
Deu
9:20 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed
for Aaron also at the same time.
Deu
9:21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with
fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as
dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the
mountain.
Deu
9:22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you
provoked Yahweh to wrath.
Deu
9:23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go up and
possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against
the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor
listen to his voice.
Deu
9:24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I
knew you.
Deu
9:25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights
that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
Deu
9:26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your
people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your
greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty
hand.
Deu
9:27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look
to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to
their sin,
Deu
9:28 lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was
not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and
because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the
wilderness.
Deu
9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you
brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
Deu
10:1 At that time Yahweh said to me, Cut two tables of stone like
the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of
wood.
Deu
10:2 I will write on the tables the words that were on the first
tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
Deu
10:3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone
like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables
in my hand.
Deu
10:4 He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to
me.
Deu
10:5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in
the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
Deu
10:6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to
Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his
son ministered in the priest's office in his place.
Deu
10:7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
Deu
10:8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the
ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to
him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
Deu
10:9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his
brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God
spoke to him.)
Deu
10:10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and
forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would
not destroy you.
Deu
10:11 Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people;
and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their
fathers to give to them.
Deu
10:12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to
fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and
to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deu
10:13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I
command you this day for your good?
Deu
10:14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of
heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
Deu
10:15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he
chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this
day.
Deu
10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no
more stiff-necked.
Deu
10:17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the
great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't regard persons,
nor takes reward.
Deu
10:18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and
loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
Deu
10:19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the
land of Egypt.
Deu
10:20 You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you
shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
Deu
10:21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you
these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
Deu
10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and
now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for
multitude.
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.
Luke 15
Luk
15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him
to hear him.
Luk
15:2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man
welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
Luk
15:3 He told them this parable.
Luk
15:4 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost
one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go
after the one that was lost, until he found it?
Luk
15:5 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders,
rejoicing.
Luk
15:6 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his
neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my
sheep which was lost!'
Luk
15:7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over
one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who
need no repentance.
Luk
15:8 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one
drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek
diligently until she found it?
Luk
15:9 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and
neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma
which I had lost.'
Luk
15:10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner repenting."
Luk
15:11 He said, "A certain man had two sons.
Luk
15:12 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my
share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.
Luk
15:13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this
together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his
property with riotous living.
Luk
15:14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in
that country, and he began to be in need.
Luk
15:15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that
country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luk
15:16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate,
but no one gave him any.
Luk
15:17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants
of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
Luk
15:18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father,
I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
Luk
15:19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of
your hired servants." '
Luk
15:20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still
far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luk
15:21 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven,
and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
Luk
15:22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best
robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his
feet.
Luk
15:23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and
celebrate;
Luk
15:24 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost,
and is found.' They began to celebrate.
Luk
15:25 "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to
the house, he heard music and dancing.
Luk
15:26 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going
on.
Luk
15:27 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has
killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and
healthy.'
Luk
15:28 But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father
came out, and begged him.
Luk
15:29 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have
served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you
never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
Luk
15:30 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living
with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
Luk
15:31 "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all
that is mine is yours.
Luk
15:32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this,
your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is
found.' "
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.'
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