Bible Reading May 7, 8
World English Bible
Deuteronomy
29, 30
Deu
29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,
besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deu
29:2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all
that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and
to all his servants, and to all his land;
Deu
29:3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those
great wonders:
Deu
29:4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see,
and ears to hear, to this day.
Deu
29:5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have
not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
Deu
29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong
drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
Deu
29:7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og
the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck
them:
Deu
29:8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the
Manassites.
Deu
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that
you may prosper in all that you do.
Deu
29:10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your
heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men
of Israel,
Deu
29:11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the
midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who
draws your water;
Deu
29:12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and
into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
Deu
29:13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people,
and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore
to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
Deu
29:15 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh
our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
Deu
29:16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we
came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
Deu
29:17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood
and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
Deu
29:18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or
tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to
serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a
root that bears gall and wormwood;
Deu
29:19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he
bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk
in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
Deu
29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and
his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is
written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his
name from under the sky.
Deu
29:21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written
in this book of the law.
Deu
29:22 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after
you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which
Yahweh has made it sick;
Deu
29:23 and that
the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and
a burning, that
it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the
overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh
overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Deu
29:24 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to
this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
Deu
29:25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
Deu
29:26 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that
they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
Deu
29:27 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land,
to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
Deu
29:28 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as
at this day.
Deu
29:29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things
that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we
may do all the words of this law.
Deu
30:1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall
call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has
driven you,
Deu
30:2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice
according to all that I command you this day, you and your children,
with all your heart, and with all your soul;
Deu
30:3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the
peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Deu
30:4 If any of
your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there
will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you
back:
Deu
30:5 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your
fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good,
and multiply you above your fathers.
Deu
30:6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of
your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, that you may live.
Deu
30:7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and
on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Deu
30:8 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his
commandments which I command you this day.
Deu
30:9 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your
hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock,
and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again
rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
Deu
30:10 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul.
Deu
30:11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not
too hard for you, neither is it far off.
Deu
30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for
us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may
do it?
Deu
30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall
go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it,
that we may do it?
Deu
30:14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your
heart, that you may do it.
Deu
30:15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and
death and evil;
Deu
30:16 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to
walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and
his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your
God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
Deu
30:17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall
be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
Deu
30:18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you
shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the
Jordan to go in to possess it.
Deu
30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse:
therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
Deu
30:20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to
him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may
dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy
31, 32
Deu
31:1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
Deu
31:2 He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I
can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, You shall
not go over this Jordan.
Deu
31:3 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy
these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: and
Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Deu
31:4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings
of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
Deu
31:5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to
them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
Deu
31:6 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared
of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will
not fail you, nor forsake you.
Deu
31:7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all
Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this
people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give
them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
Deu
31:8 Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you,
he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither
be dismayed.
Deu
31:9 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons
of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the
elders of Israel.
Deu
31:10 Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every
seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of
tents,
Deu
31:11 when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in
the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all
Israel in their hearing.
Deu
31:12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little
ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may
hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe
to do all the words of this law;
Deu
31:13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and
learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where
you go over the Jordan to possess it.
Deu
31:14 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must
die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that
I may commission him. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves
in the Tent of Meeting.
Deu
31:15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the
pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Deu
31:16 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your
fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after
the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and
will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deu
31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I
will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall
be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that
they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our
God is not among us?
Deu
31:18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which
they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
Deu
31:19 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it
the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be
a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deu
31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore
to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have
eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to
other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
Deu
31:21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on
them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it
shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know
their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought
them into the land which I swore.
Deu
31:22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
children of Israel.
Deu
31:23 He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and
of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the
land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.
Deu
31:24 It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished,
Deu
31:25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh, saying,
Deu
31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a
witness against you.
Deu
31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while
I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against
Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
Deu
31:28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your
officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven
and earth to witness against them.
Deu
31:29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt
yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you;
and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do
that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger
through the work of your hands.
Deu
31:30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the
words of this song, until they were finished.
Deu
32:1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the
words of my mouth.
Deu
32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as
the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the
herb.
Deu
32:3 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness to
our God!
Deu
32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a
God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Deu
32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they
are not his children, it
is their blemish. They
are a perverse and crooked generation.
Deu
32:6 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he
your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
Deu
32:7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many
generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and
they will tell you.
Deu
32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when
he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples
according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deu
32:9 For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.
Deu
32:10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling
wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the
apple of his eye.
Deu
32:11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her
young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his
feathers.
Deu
32:12 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
Deu
32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the
increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
oil out of the flinty rock;
Deu
32:14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs,
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat.
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
Deu
32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You
have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made
him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deu
32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
They provoked him to anger with abominations.
Deu
32:17 They sacrificed to demons, which
were no God, to gods that they didn't
know, to new gods
that came up of late, which your fathers didn't dread.
Deu
32:18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and
have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Deu
32:19 Yahweh saw it,
and abhorred them,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Deu
32:20 He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their
end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in
whom is no faithfulness.
Deu
32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them
to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to
anger with a foolish nation.
Deu
32:22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol,
Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the
mountains on fire.
Deu
32:23 I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
Deu
32:24 They shall be
wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter
destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the
poison of crawling things of the dust.
Deu
32:25 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers, terror;
on both young man and virgin, The suckling with the gray-haired man.
Deu
32:26 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of
them to cease from among men;
Deu
32:27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest
their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, Our
hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.
Deu
32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no
understanding in them.
Deu
32:29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end!
Deu
32:30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to
flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered
them up?
Deu
32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges.
Deu
32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of
Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
Deu
32:33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.
Deu
32:34 Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my
treasures?
Deu
32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot
slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are
to come on them shall make haste.
Deu
32:36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his
servants, when he sees that their
power is gone, There is none remaining,
shut up or left at large.
Deu
32:37 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took
refuge;
Deu
32:38 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of
their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your
protection.
Deu
32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. I
kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can
deliver out of my hand.
Deu
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,
Deu
32:41 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those
who hate me.
Deu
32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour
flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of
the leaders of the enemy.
Deu
32:43 Rejoice, you nations, with
his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will
render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his
land, for his people.
Deu
32:44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of
the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deu
32:45 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;
Deu
32:46 He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I
testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to
observe to do, even
all the words of this law.
Deu
32:47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and
through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you
go over the Jordan to possess it.
Deu
32:48 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
Deu
32:49 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in
the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of
Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;
Deu
32:50 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to
your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was
gathered to his people:
Deu
32:51 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children
of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of
Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of
Israel.
Deu
32:52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go
there into the land which I give the children of Israel.
May 6,
7
Luke 20
Luk
20:1 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people
in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests and
scribes came to him with the elders.
Luk
20:2 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do
these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
Luk
20:3 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell
me:
Luk
20:4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"
Luk
20:5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From
heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
Luk
20:6 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for
they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
Luk
20:7 They answered that they didn't know where it was from.
Luk
20:8 Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what
authority I do these things."
Luk
20:9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a
vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another
country for a long time.
Luk
20:10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to
collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat
him, and sent him away empty.
Luk
20:11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and
treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Luk
20:12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him
out.
Luk
20:13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send
my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
Luk
20:14 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among
themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours.'
Luk
20:15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What
therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
Luk
20:16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the
vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it
never be!"
Luk
20:17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that
is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made
the chief cornerstone?'
Luk
20:18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but
it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
Luk
20:19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him
that very hour, but they feared the people-for they knew he had
spoken this parable against them.
Luk
20:20 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be
righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to
deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
Luk
20:21 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach
what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way
of God.
Luk
20:22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
Luk
20:23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why
do you test me?
Luk
20:24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?"
They answered, "Caesar's."
Luk
20:25 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
Luk
20:26 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people.
They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
Luk
20:27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there
is a resurrection.
Luk
20:28 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a
man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother
should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
Luk
20:29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife,
and died childless.
Luk
20:30 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
Luk
20:31 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no
children, and died.
Luk
20:32 Afterward the woman also died.
Luk
20:33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be?
For the seven had her as a wife."
Luk
20:34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and
are given in marriage.
Luk
20:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and
the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in
marriage.
Luk
20:36 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and
are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
Luk
20:37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush,
when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob.'
Luk
20:38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all
are alive to him."
Luk
20:39 Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."
Luk
20:40 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
Luk
20:41 He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is
David's son?
Luk
20:42 David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my
Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
Luk
20:43 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet." '
Luk
20:44 "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"
Luk
20:45 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
Luk
20:46 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes,
and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the
synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
Luk
20:47 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long
prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
Luke 21
Luk
21:1 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their
gifts into the treasury.
Luk
21:2 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.
Luk
21:3 He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more
than all of them,
Luk
21:4 for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but
she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."
Luk
21:5 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated
with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
Luk
21:6 "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in
which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not
be thrown down."
Luk
21:7 They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be?
What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"
Luk
21:8 He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for
many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is at
hand.' Therefore don't follow them.
Luk
21:9 When you hear of wars and disturbances, don't be terrified, for
these things must happen first, but the end won't come immediately."
Luk
21:10 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom.
Luk
21:11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in
various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Luk
21:12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you
and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons,
bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.
Luk
21:13 It will turn out as a testimony for you.
Luk
21:14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand
how to answer,
Luk
21:15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your
adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
Luk
21:16 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives,
and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
Luk
21:17 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.
Luk
21:18 And not a hair of your head will perish.
Luk
21:19 "By your endurance you will win your lives.
Luk
21:20 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then
know that its desolation is at hand.
Luk
21:21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let
those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the
country not enter therein.
Luk
21:22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are
written may be fulfilled.
Luk
21:23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants
in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and
wrath to this people.
Luk
21:24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led
captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the
Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Luk
21:25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the
earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea
and the waves;
Luk
21:26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which
are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be
shaken.
Luk
21:27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power
and great glory.
Luk
21:28 But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up
your heads, because your redemption is near."
Luk
21:29 He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the
trees.
Luk
21:30 When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own
selves that the summer is already near.
Luk
21:31 Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know
that the Kingdom of God is near.
Luk
21:32 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away
until all things are accomplished.
Luk
21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means
pass away.
Luk
21:34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with
carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will
come on you suddenly.
Luk
21:35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the
surface of all the earth.
Luk
21:36 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be
counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to
stand before the Son of Man."
Luk
21:37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he
would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called
Olivet.
Luk
21:38 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple
to hear him.
