Bible Reading May 1 -3
World English Bible
May
1
Deuteronomy
17, 18
Deu
17:1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep,
in which is a blemish, or
anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
17:2 If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates
which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is
evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deu
17:3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the
sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not
commanded;
Deu
17:4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall
inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain,
that such abomination is done in Israel,
Deu
17:5 then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done
this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you
shall stone them to death with stones.
Deu
17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who
is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not
be put to death.
Deu
17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to
death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put
away the evil from the midst of you.
Deu
17:8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between
blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and
stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you
shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose;
Deu
17:9 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge
who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall
show you the sentence of judgment.
Deu
17:10 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they
shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you
shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
Deu
17:11 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you,
and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall
do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show
you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Deu
17:12 The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the
priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the
judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from
Israel.
Deu
17:13 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
Deu
17:14 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you,
and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will
set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;
Deu
17:15 you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh
your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set
king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your
brother.
Deu
17:16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses;
because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more
that way.
Deu
17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not
turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and
gold.
Deu
17:18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that
he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that
which is before the priests the Levites:
Deu
17:19 and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the
days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep
all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Deu
17:20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that
he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the
left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and
his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deu
18:1 The priests the Levites, even
all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with
Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his
inheritance.
Deu
18:2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is
their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
Deu
18:3 This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who
offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to
the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
Deu
18:4 The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your
oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
Deu
18:5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to
stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.
Deu
18:6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel,
where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his
soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
Deu
18:7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all
his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
Deu
18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes
of the sale of his patrimony.
Deu
18:9 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives
you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those
nations.
Deu
18:10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or
his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one
who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
Deu
18:11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a
wizard, or a necromancer.
Deu
18:12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and
because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out
from before you.
Deu
18:13 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
Deu
18:14 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those
who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your
God has not allowed you so to do.
Deu
18:15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst
of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
Deu
18:16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God
in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any
more, that I not die.
Deu
18:17 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have
spoken.
Deu
18:18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like
you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them
all that I shall command him.
Deu
18:19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Deu
18:20 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my
name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in
the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
Deu
18:21 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which
Yahweh has not spoken?
Deu
18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing
doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not
spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be
afraid of him.
Deuteronomy
19, 20
Deu
19:1 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land
Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their
cities, and in their houses;
Deu
19:2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your
land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
Deu
19:3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your
land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts,
that every manslayer may flee there.
Deu
19:4 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and
live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in
time past;
Deu
19:5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop
wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the
tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor,
so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
Deu
19:6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart
is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him
mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't
hate him in time past.
Deu
19:7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three
cities for yourselves.
Deu
19:8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to
your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to
your fathers;
Deu
19:9 if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you
this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then
you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:
Deu
19:10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land,
which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be
on you.
Deu
19:11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him,
and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies,
and he flees into one of these cities;
Deu
19:12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there,
and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may
die.
Deu
19:13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the
innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Deu
19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of
old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in
the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
Deu
19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,
or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two
witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be
established.
Deu
19:16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify
against him of wrongdoing,
Deu
19:17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall
stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be
in those days;
Deu
19:18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against
his brother;
Deu
19:19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his
brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
Deu
19:20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
Deu
19:21 Your eyes shall not pity; life shall
go for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deu
20:1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see
horses, and chariots, and
a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh
your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Deu
20:2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak to the people,
Deu
20:3 and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to
battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be
afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
Deu
20:4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you.
Deu
20:5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is
there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate it.
Deu
20:6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used
its fruit? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man use its fruit.
Deu
20:7 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has
not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man take her.
Deu
20:8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall
say, What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? let him go
and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.
Deu
20:9 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to
the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of
the people.
Deu
20:10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace to it.
Deu
20:11 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to
you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein
shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
Deu
20:12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against
you, then you shall besiege it:
Deu
20:13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall
strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
Deu
20:14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all
that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to
yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh
your God has given you.
Deu
20:15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off
from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Deu
20:16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives
you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
Deu
20:17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the
Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
Deu
20:18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations,
which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh
your God.
Deu
20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an
axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them
down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of
you?
Deu
20:20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for
food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build
bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
Deuteronomy
21, 22
Deu
21:1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has
struck him;
Deu
21:2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they
shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
Deu
21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain
man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd,
which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
Deu
21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and
shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
Deu
21:5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh
your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of
Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every
stroke be.
Deu
21:6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the
valley;
Deu
21:7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this
blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Deu
21:8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed,
and don't allow innocent blood to remain
in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.
Deu
21:9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
Deu
21:10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away
captive,
Deu
21:11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a
desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
Deu
21:12 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deu
21:13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother
a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her
husband, and she shall be your wife.
Deu
21:14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let
her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money,
you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
Deu
21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated,
and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and
if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
Deu
21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to
inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the
beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the
firstborn:
Deu
21:17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the
beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Deu
21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they
chasten him, will not listen to them;
Deu
21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and
bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his
place;
Deu
21:20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.
Deu
21:21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones:
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel
shall hear, and fear.
Deu
21:22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put
to death, and you hang him on a tree;
Deu
21:23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of
God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance.
Deu
22:1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and
hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your
brother.
Deu
22:2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him,
then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you
until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
Deu
22:3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his
garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's,
which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
Deu
22:4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down
by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to
lift them up again.
Deu
22:5 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put
on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination
to Yahweh your God.
Deu
22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any
tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting
on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the
young:
Deu
22:7 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to
yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your
days.
Deu
22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement
for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man
fall from there.
Deu
22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest
the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the
increase of the vineyard.
Deu
22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Deu
22:11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
Deu
22:12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your
cloak, with which you cover yourself.
Deu
22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
Deu
22:14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name
on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I
didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
Deu
22:15 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take
and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the
elders of the city in the gate;
Deu
22:16 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my
daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
Deu
22:17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, I
didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these
are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the
garment before the elders of the city.
Deu
22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
Deu
22:19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels
of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he
has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be
his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deu
22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were
not found in the young lady;
Deu
22:21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her
father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with
stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute
in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst
of you.
Deu
22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband,
then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and
the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
Deu
22:23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married
to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deu
22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city,
and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she
didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled
his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you.
Deu
22:25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in
the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only
who lay with her shall die:
Deu
22:26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no
sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor,
and kills him, even so is this matter;
Deu
22:27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady
cried, and there was none to save her.
Deu
22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be
married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deu
22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father
fifty shekels
of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he
may not put her away all his days.
Deu
22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover
his father's skirt.
May 1
Luke 17
Luk
17:1 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no
occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they
come!
Luk
17:2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his
neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should
cause one of these little ones to stumble.
Luk
17:3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he
repents, forgive him.
Luk
17:4 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times
returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
Luk
17:5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
Luk
17:6 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard
seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted
in the sea,' and it would obey you.
Luk
17:7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping
sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come
immediately and sit down at the table,'
Luk
17:8 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe
yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you
shall eat and drink'?
Luk
17:9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were
commanded? I think not.
Luk
17:10 Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are
commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our
duty.' "
Luk
17:11 It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was
passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
Luk
17:12 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers
met him, who stood at a distance.
Luk
17:13 They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have
mercy on us!"
Luk
17:14 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show
yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they
were cleansed.
Luk
17:15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back,
glorifying God with a loud voice.
Luk
17:16 He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he
was a Samaritan.
Luk
17:17 Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are
the nine?
Luk
17:18 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God,
except this stranger?"
Luk
17:19 Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith
has healed you."
Luk
17:20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would
come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with
observation;
Luk
17:21 neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for
behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."
Luk
17:22 He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you
will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will
not see it.
Luk
17:23 They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go
away, nor follow after them,
Luk
17:24 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part
under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the
Son of Man be in his day.
Luk
17:25 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this
generation.
Luk
17:26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in
the days of the Son of Man.
Luk
17:27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the
flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk
17:28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate,
they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
Luk
17:29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire
and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
Luk
17:30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is
revealed.
Luk
17:31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in
the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in
the field likewise not turn back.
Luk
17:32 Remember Lot's wife!
Luk
17:33 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his
life preserves it.
Luk
17:34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed.
The one will be taken, and the other will be left.
Luk
17:35 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken,
and the other will be left."
Luk
17:36 Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left."
Luk
17:37 They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said
to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be
gathered together."
Luke 18
Luk
18:1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and
not give up,
Luk
18:2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't
fear God, and didn't respect man.
Luk
18:3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying,
'Defend me from my adversary!'
Luk
18:4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself,
'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
Luk
18:5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else
she will wear me out by her continual coming.' "
Luk
18:6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
Luk
18:7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day
and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Luk
18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when
the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
Luk
18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced
of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
Luk
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a
Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Luk
18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I
thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners,
unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luk
18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
Luk
18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift
up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful
to me, a sinner!'
Luk
18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather
than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but
he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Luk
18:15 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might
touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luk
18:16 Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children
to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs
to such as these.
Luk
18:17 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the
Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
Luk
18:18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what
shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Luk
18:19 Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is
good, except one-God.
Luk
18:20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't
murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your
father and your mother.' "
Luk
18:21 He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth
up."
Luk
18:22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still
lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the
poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."
Luk
18:23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was
very rich.
Luk
18:24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it
is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
Luk
18:25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's
eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
Luk
18:26 Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
Luk
18:27 But he said, "The things which are impossible with men
are possible with God."
Luk
18:28 Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed
you."
Luk
18:29 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no
one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or
children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
Luk
18:30 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the
world to come, eternal life."
Luk
18:31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we
are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written
through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
Luk
18:32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked,
treated shamefully, and spit on.
Luk
18:33 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise
again."
Luk
18:34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden
from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
Luk
18:35 It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat
by the road, begging.
Luk
18:36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.
Luk
18:37 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.
Luk
18:38 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on
me!"
Luk
18:39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet;
but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on
me!"
Luk
18:40 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When
he had come near, he asked him,
Luk
18:41 "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord,
that I may see again."
Luk
18:42 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has
healed you."
Luk
18:43 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him,
glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
