Bible Reading April 20 and 21
World English Bible
Apr.
20
Numbers
31, 32
Num
31:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
31:2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you
shall be gathered to your people.
Num
31:3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you for
the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's
vengeance on Midian.
Num
31:4 Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of
Israel, you shall send to the war.
Num
31:5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a
thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Num
31:6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them
and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the
vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
Num
31:7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they
killed every male.
Num
31:8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain:
Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian:
Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.
Num
31:9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and
their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and
all their goods, they took for a prey.
Num
31:10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all
their encampments, they burnt with fire.
Num
31:11 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of
animal.
Num
31:12 They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to
Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the
children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by
the Jordan at Jericho.
Num
31:13 Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.
Num
31:14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of
thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of
the war.
Num
31:15 Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
Num
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of
Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
Num
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman who has known man by lying with him.
Num
31:18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him,
keep alive for yourselves.
Num
31:19 Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any
person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the
third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
Num
31:20 As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all
work of goats' hair,
and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.
Num
31:21 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the
battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded
Moses:
Num
31:22 however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the
tin, and the lead,
Num
31:23 everything that may abide the fire, you shall make to go
through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be
purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand
the fire you shall make to go through the water.
Num
31:24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall
be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.
Num
31:25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
31:26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of
animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers'
houses of
the congregation;
Num
31:27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in
war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
Num
31:28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to
battle: one soul of five hundred, both
of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the
flocks:
Num
31:29 take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for
Yahweh's wave offering.
Num
31:30 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out
of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of
the flocks, even
of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the
duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh.
Num
31:31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war
took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
Num
31:33 and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
Num
31:34 and sixty-one thousand donkeys,
Num
31:35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had
not known man by lying with him.
Num
31:36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war,
was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
Num
31:37 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred
seventy-five.
Num
31:38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute
was seventy-two.
Num
31:39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which
Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
Num
31:40 The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute
was thirty-two persons.
Num
31:41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to
Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:42 Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from
the men who warred
Num
31:43 (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven
thousand five hundred sheep,
Num
31:44 and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
Num
31:45 and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
Num
31:46 and sixteen thousand persons),
Num
31:47 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn
out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the
Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as
Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the
captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to
Moses;
Num
31:49 and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of
the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man
of us.
Num
31:50 We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten,
of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings,
and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.
Num
31:51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all
worked jewels.
Num
31:52 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to
Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of
hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
Num
31:53 (For
the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
Num
31:54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting,
for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
Num
32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer,
and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for
livestock;
Num
32:2 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke
to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the
congregation, saying,
Num
32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and
Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Num
32:4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel,
is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.
Num
32:5 They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land
be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the
Jordan.
Num
32:6 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
Num
32:7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from
going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
Num
32:8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see
the land.
Num
32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they
should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
Num
32:10 Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,
Num
32:11 Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty
years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Num
32:12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the
son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh.
Num
32:13 Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them
wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the
generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.
Num
32:14 Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase
of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward
Israel.
Num
32:15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave
them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.
Num
32:16 They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here
for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:
Num
32:17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children
of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little
ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants
of the land.
Num
32:18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel
have inherited every man his inheritance.
Num
32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the
Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this
side of the Jordan eastward.
Num
32:20 Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm
yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
Num
32:21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before
Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
Num
32:22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you
shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel;
and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.
Num
32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against
Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
Num
32:24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep;
and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
Num
32:25 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses,
saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
Num
32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock,
shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
Num
32:27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for
war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.
Num
32:28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and
to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses
of the tribes of the children of Israel.
Num
32:29 Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to
battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then
you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
Num
32:30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have
possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
Num
32:31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
Num
32:32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan,
and the possession of our inheritance shall
remain with us beyond the Jordan.
Num
32:33 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of
Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with their
borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
Num
32:34 The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Num
32:35 and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
Num
32:36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds
for sheep.
Num
32:37 The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
Kiriathaim,
Num
32:38 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and
Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Num
32:39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and
took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
Num
32:40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived
therein.
Num
32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called
them Havvoth Jair.
Num
32:42 Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it
Nobah, after his own name.
Numbers
33, 34
Num
33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they
went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of
Moses and Aaron.
Num
33:2 Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the
commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to
their goings out.
Num
33:3 They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth
day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the
children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the
Egyptians,
Num
33:4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom
Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods also Yahweh executed
judgments.
Num
33:5 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in
Succoth.
Num
33:6 They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in
the edge of the wilderness.
Num
33:7 They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which
is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.
Num
33:8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the
midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days'
journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
Num
33:9 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were
twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped
there.
Num
33:10 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
Num
33:11 They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness
of Sin.
Num
33:12 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in
Dophkah.
Num
33:13 They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Num
33:14 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where
there was no water for the people to drink.
Num
33:15 They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of
Sinai.
Num
33:16 They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in
Kibroth Hattaavah.
Num
33:17 They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in
Hazeroth.
Num
33:18 They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
Num
33:19 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.
Num
33:20 They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.
Num
33:21 They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
Num
33:22 They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
Num
33:23 They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.
Num
33:24 They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.
Num
33:25 They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.
Num
33:26 They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
Num
33:27 They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.
Num
33:28 They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
Num
33:29 They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.
Num
33:30 They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.
Num
33:31 They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.
Num
33:32 They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.
Num
33:33 They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.
Num
33:34 They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.
Num
33:35 They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.
Num
33:36 They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness
of Zin (the same is Kadesh).
Num
33:37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the
edge of the land of Edom.
Num
33:38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of
Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of
Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the
first day of the month.
Num
33:39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in
Mount Hor.
Num
33:40 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the
land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Num
33:41 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
Num
33:42 They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
Num
33:43 They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
Num
33:44 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the
border of Moab.
Num
33:45 They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.
Num
33:46 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon
Diblathaim.
Num
33:47 They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the
mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
Num
33:48 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Num
33:49 They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel
Shittim in the plains of Moab.
Num
33:50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying,
Num
33:51 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass
over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Num
33:52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you, and destroy all their figured stones,
and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high
places:
Num
33:53 and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein;
for I have given given the land to you to possess it.
Num
33:54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families;
to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you
shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man,
that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your
fathers.
Num
33:55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from
before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in
your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in
the land in which you dwell.
Num
33:56 It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do
to you.
Num
34:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
34:2 Command the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come
into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for
an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
Num
34:3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin
along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the
end of the Salt Sea eastward;
Num
34:4 and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of
Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be
southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and
pass along to Azmon;
Num
34:5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of
Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
Num
34:6 For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the
border of it:
this shall be your west border.
Num
34:7 This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall
mark out for you Mount Hor;
Num
34:8 from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath;
and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;
Num
34:9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of
it shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north border.
Num
34:10 You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to
Shepham;
Num
34:11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the
east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to
the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
Num
34:12 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out
of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to
its borders around it.
Num
34:13 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the
land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to
give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
Num
34:14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their
fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to
their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh
have received, their inheritance:
Num
34:15 the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their
inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the
sunrise.
Num
34:16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
34:17 These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to
you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num
34:18 You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land
for inheritance.
Num
34:19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb
the son of Jephunneh.
Num
34:20 Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of
Ammihud.
Num
34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
Num
34:22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of
Jogli.
Num
34:23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of
Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Num
34:24 Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the
son of Shiphtan.
Num
34:25 Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan
the son of Parnach.
Num
34:26 Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the
son of Azzan.
Num
34:27 Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son
of Shelomi.
Num
34:28 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the
son of Ammihud.
Num
34:29 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance
to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Apr.
20, 21
Luke 12
Luk
12:1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered
together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to
tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luk
12:2 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor
hidden, that will not be known.
Luk
12:3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard
in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers
will be proclaimed on the housetops.
Luk
12:4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill
the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luk
12:5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after
he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear
him.
Luk
12:6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one
of them is forgotten by God.
Luk
12:7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore
don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
Luk
12:8 "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him
will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
Luk
12:9 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in
the presence of the angels of God.
Luk
12:10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be
forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be
forgiven.
Luk
12:11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the
authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what
you will say;
Luk
12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you
must say."
Luk
12:13 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my
brother to divide the inheritance with me."
Luk
12:14 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an
arbitrator over you?"
Luk
12:15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from
covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of
the things which he possesses."
Luk
12:16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a
certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
Luk
12:17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I
don't have room to store my crops?'
Luk
12:18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns,
and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my
goods.
Luk
12:19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up
for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry." '
Luk
12:20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul
is required of you. The things which you have prepared-whose will
they be?'
Luk
12:21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich
toward God."
Luk
12:22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be
anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what
you will wear.
Luk
12:23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Luk
12:24 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they
have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable
are you than birds!
Luk
12:25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
Luk
12:26 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are
you anxious about the rest?
Luk
12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither
do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
Luk
12:28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which
today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will
he clothe you, O you of little faith?
Luk
12:29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither
be anxious.
Luk
12:30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things,
but your Father knows that you need these things.
Luk
12:31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to
you.
Luk
12:32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Luk
12:33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make
for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens
that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
Luk
12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luk
12:35 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning.
Luk
12:36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the
marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately
open to him.
Luk
12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching
when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself,
and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
Luk
12:38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch,
and finds them so.
Luk
12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in
what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not
allowed his house to be broken into.
Luk
12:40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an
hour that you don't expect him."
Luk
12:41 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to
us, or to everybody?"
Luk
12:42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise
steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them
their portion of food at the right times?
Luk
12:43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when
he comes.
Luk
12:44 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
Luk
12:45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his
coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and
to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
Luk
12:46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't
expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him
in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
Luk
12:47 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare,
nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
Luk
12:48 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will
be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will
much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be
asked.
Luk
12:49 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were
already kindled.
Luk
12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I
am until it is accomplished!
Luk
12:51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I
tell you, no, but rather division.
Luk
12:52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three.
Luk
12:53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against
father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law."
Luk
12:54 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud
rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and
so it happens.
Luk
12:55 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching
heat,' and it happens.
Luk
12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of
the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this
time?
Luk
12:57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
Luk
12:58 For when you are going with your adversary before the
magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest
perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the
officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
Luk
12:59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you
have paid the very last penny."
