Bible Reading for January 25 and 26
World English Bible
Jan.
25
Genesis
25
Gen
25:1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
Gen
25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Gen
25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of
Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
Gen
25:4 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.
All these were the children of Keturah.
Gen
25:5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
Gen
25:6 but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He
sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to
the east country.
Gen
25:7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he
lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Gen
25:8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Gen
25:9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite,
which is before Mamre,
Gen
25:10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth.
Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
Gen
25:11 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac,
his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
Gen
25:12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael,
Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to
Abraham.
Gen
25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael,
Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Gen
25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Gen
25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Gen
25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by
their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according
to their nations.
Gen
25:17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred
thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered
to his people.
Gen
25:18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you
go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
Gen
25:19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's
son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Gen
25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter
of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian,
to be his wife.
Gen
25:21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren.
Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Gen
25:22 The children struggled together within her. She said, "If
it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.
Gen
25:23 Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples
will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger
than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
Gen
25:24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there
were twins in her womb.
Gen
25:25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They
named him Esau.
Gen
25:26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on
Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she
bore them.
Gen
25:27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field.
Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Gen
25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah
loved Jacob.
Gen
25:29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was
famished.
Gen
25:30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red
stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
Gen
25:31 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."
Gen
25:32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the
birthright to me?"
Gen
25:33 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He
sold his birthright to Jacob.
Gen
25:34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank,
rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
Jan.
26
Genesis
26
Gen
26:1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the
Philistines, to Gerar.
Gen
26:2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into
Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Gen
26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless
you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I
will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Gen
26:4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will
give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations
of the earth be blessed,
Gen
26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
Gen
26:6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
Gen
26:7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She
is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife,"
lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for
Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."
Gen
26:8 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech
king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold,
Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Gen
26:9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is
your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?' " Isaac said to
him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.' "
Gen
26:10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of
the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have
brought guilt on us!"
Gen
26:11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who
touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
Gen
26:12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one
hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
Gen
26:13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became
very great.
Gen
26:14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a
great household. The Philistines envied him.
Gen
26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the
days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled
with earth.
Gen
26:16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much
mightier than we."
Gen
26:17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar,
and lived there.
Gen
26:18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the
days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them
after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by
which his father had called them.
Gen
26:19 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
Gen
26:20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying,
"The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek,
because they contended with him.
Gen
26:21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He
called its name Sitnah.
Gen
26:22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue
over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh
has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
Gen
26:23 He went up from there to Beersheba.
Gen
26:24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am
the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you,
and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's
sake."
Gen
26:25 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and
pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
Gen
26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his
friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Gen
26:27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you
hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
Gen
26:28 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We
said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you,
and let us make a covenant with you,
Gen
26:29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and
as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in
peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
Gen
26:30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Gen
26:31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to
another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen
26:32 It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told
him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We
have found water."
Gen
26:33 He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is
Beersheba to this day.
Gen
26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the
Hittite.
Gen
26:35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.
Jan.
25, 26
Matthew
13
Mat
13:1 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the
seaside.
Mat
13:2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a
boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
Mat
13:3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold,
a farmer went out to sow.
Mat
13:4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds
came and devoured them.
Mat
13:5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil,
and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
Mat
13:6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no
root, they withered away.
Mat
13:7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Mat
13:8 Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred
times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Mat
13:9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mat
13:10 The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to
them in parables?"
Mat
13:11 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the
mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Mat
13:12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have
abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even
that which he has.
Mat
13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they
don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
Mat
13:14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By
hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will
see, and will in no way perceive:
Mat
13:15 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull
of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might
perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their
heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'
Mat
13:16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears,
for they hear.
Mat
13:17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous
men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and
to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
Mat
13:18 "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
Mat
13:19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't
understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has
been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Mat
13:20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the
word, and immediately with joy receives it;
Mat
13:21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When
oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he
stumbles.
Mat
13:22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word,
but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the
word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Mat
13:23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the
word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings
forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
Mat
13:24 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom
of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
Mat
13:25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds
also among the wheat, and went away.
Mat
13:26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the
darnel weeds appeared also.
Mat
13:27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir,
didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come
from?'
Mat
13:28 "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The
servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
Mat
13:29 "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the
darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
Mat
13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest
time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel
weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat
into my barn." ' "
Mat
13:31 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom
of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and
sowed in his field;
Mat
13:32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown,
it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds
of the air come and lodge in its branches."
Mat
13:33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven
is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal,
until it was all leavened."
Mat
13:34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes;
and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
Mat
13:35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the
prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter
things hidden from the foundation of the world."
Mat
13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house.
His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of
the darnel weeds of the field."
Mat
13:37 He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son
of Man,
Mat
13:38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the
children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the
evil one.
Mat
13:39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end
of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Mat
13:40 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with
fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
Mat
13:41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather
out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do
iniquity,
Mat
13:42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be
weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Mat
13:43 Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the
Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat
13:44 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden
in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and
sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Mat
13:45 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a
merchant seeking fine pearls,
Mat
13:46 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold
all that he had, and bought it.
Mat
13:47 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was
cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
Mat
13:48 which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat
down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw
away.
Mat
13:49 So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come
forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
Mat
13:50 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the
weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
Mat
13:51 Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these
things?" They answered him, "Yes, Lord."
Mat
13:52 He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been
made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a
householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
Mat
13:53 It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he
departed from there.
Mat
13:54 Coming into his own country, he taught them in their
synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did
this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Mat
13:55 Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary,
and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
Mat
13:56 Aren't all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get
all of these things?"
Mat
13:57 They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A
prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his
own house."
Mat
13:58 He didn't do many mighty works there because of their
unbelief.
