Bible Reading for April 30, May 1st and 2nd
World English Bible
Apr.
30
Deuteronomy
15, 16
Deu
15:1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
Deu
15:2 This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release
that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been
proclaimed.
Deu
15:3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with
your brother your hand shall release.
Deu
15:4 However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will
surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance to possess it;)
Deu
15:5 if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,
to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
Deu
15:6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you
shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall
rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deu
15:7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of
your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall
not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
Deu
15:8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely
lend him sufficient for his need in that
which he wants.
Deu
15:9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying,
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be
evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry
to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Deu
15:10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved
when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God
will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand
to.
Deu
15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I
command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother,
to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
Deu
15:12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to
you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let
him go free from you.
Deu
15:13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go
empty:
Deu
15:14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of
your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God
has blessed you, you shall give to him.
Deu
15:15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of
Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this
thing today.
Deu
15:16 It shall be, if he tells you, I will not go out from you;
because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
Deu
15:17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to
the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female
servant you shall do likewise.
Deu
15:18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from
you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you
six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
Deu
15:19 All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your
flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work
with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your
flock.
Deu
15:20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the
place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
Deu
15:21 If it have any blemish, as if it
be lame or blind, any ill blemish
whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
Deu
15:22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean
shall eat it
alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
Deu
15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the
ground as water.
Deu
16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your
God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out
of Egypt by night.
Deu
16:2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the
flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there.
Deu
16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat
unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction;
for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may
remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the
days of your life.
Deu
16:4 There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven
days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first
day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Deu
16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates,
which Yahweh your God gives you;
Deu
16:6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even,
at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out
of Egypt.
Deu
16:7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your
tents.
Deu
16:8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day
shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work
therein.
Deu
16:9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you
begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to
number seven weeks.
Deu
16:10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a
tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give,
according as Yahweh your God blesses you:
Deu
16:11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your
son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female
servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there.
Deu
16:12 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and
you shall observe and do these statutes.
Deu
16:13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you
have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
Deu
16:14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and
your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and
the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who
are within your gates.
Deu
16:15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the
place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless
you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you
shall be altogether joyful.
Deu
16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before
Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
Deu
16:17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
Deu
16:18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which
Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall
judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deu
16:19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons;
neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of
the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deu
16:20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may
live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
16:21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of
tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for
yourselves.
Deu
16:22 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your
God hates.
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.
May
2
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.
Apr. 30, 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."
May 2
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.
