Bible Reading for April 16 - 18
World English Bible
Apr.
16
Numbers
23, 24
Num
23:1 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare
me here seven bulls and seven rams.
Num
23:2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on
every altar a bull and a ram.
Num
23:3 Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will
go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I
will tell you. He went to a bare height.
Num
23:4 God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven
altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
Num
23:5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak,
and thus you shall speak.
Num
23:6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt
offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
Num
23:7 He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought
me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me
Jacob, Come, defy Israel.
Num
23:8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy,
whom Yahweh has not defied?
Num
23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see
him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be
reckoned among the nations.
Num
23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of
Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be
like his!
Num
23:11 Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to
curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.
Num
23:12 He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which
Yahweh puts in my mouth?
Num
23:13 Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from
whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them,
and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.
Num
23:14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah,
and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every
altar.
Num
23:15 He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I
meet Yahweh
yonder.
Num
23:16 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said,
Return to Balak, and say this.
Num
23:17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt
offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What
has Yahweh spoken?
Num
23:18 He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
Num
23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that
he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he
spoken, and will he not make it good?
Num
23:20 Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed,
and I can't reverse it.
Num
23:21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen
perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a
king is among them.
Num
23:22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength
of the wild ox.
Num
23:23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there
any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of
Israel, What has God done!
Num
23:24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts
himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and
drinks the blood of the slain.
Num
23:25 Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all.
Num
23:26 But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that
Yahweh speaks, that I must do?
Num
23:27 Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another
place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them
from there.
Num
23:28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the
desert.
Num
23:29 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare
me here seven bulls and seven rams.
Num
23:30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram
on every altar.
Num
24:1 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he
didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he
set his face toward the wilderness.
Num
24:2 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according
to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
Num
24:3 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eye was closed says;
Num
24:4 he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the
Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
Num
24:5 How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!
Num
24:6 As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside,
as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
Num
24:7 Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many
waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be
exalted.
Num
24:8 God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of
the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break
their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
Num
24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall
rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who
curses you is cursed.
Num
24:10 Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his
hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my
enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three
times.
Num
24:11 Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you
to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.
Num
24:12 Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who
you sent to me, saying,
Num
24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my
own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak?
Num
24:14 Now, behold, I go to my people: come, and
I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the
latter days.
Num
24:15 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eye was closed says;
Num
24:16 he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of
the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down,
and having his eyes open:
Num
24:17 I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will
come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall
strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of
Sheth.
Num
24:18 Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a
possession, while Israel does valiantly.
Num
24:19 Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the
remnant from the city.
Num
24:20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek
was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to
destruction.
Num
24:21 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,
Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
Num
24:22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you
away captive.
Num
24:23 He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when
God does this?
Num
24:24 But ships shall come
from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall
afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.
Num
24:25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak
also went his way.
Apr.
17
Numbers
25, 26
Num
25:1 Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the
prostitute with the daughters of Moab:
Num
25:2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and
the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
Num
25:3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was
kindled against Israel.
Num
25:4 Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and
hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of
Yahweh may turn away from Israel.
Num
25:5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, Everyone kill his men who
have joined themselves to Baal Peor.
Num
25:6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his
brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of
all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were
weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Num
25:7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a
spear in his hand;
Num
25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and
thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through
her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Num
25:9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Num
25:10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has
turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was
jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the
children of Israel in my jealousy.
Num
25:12 Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:
Num
25:13 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the
covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his
God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Num
25:14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was
slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince
of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.
Num
25:15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the
daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in
Midian.
Num
25:16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
25:17 Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
Num
25:18 for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have
deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the
daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the
day of the plague in the matter of Peor.
Num
26:1 It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and to
Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
Num
26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel,
from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who
are able to go forth to war in Israel.
Num
26:3 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of
Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Num
26:4 Take the sum of the people,
from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the
children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
Num
26:5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of
Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the
Palluites;
Num
26:6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family
of the Carmites.
Num
26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were
numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
Num
26:8 The sons of Pallu: Eliab.
Num
26:9 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are
that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who
strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when
they strove against Yahweh,
Num
26:10 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together
with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two
hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
Num
26:11 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die.
Num
26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family
of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin,
the family of the Jachinites;
Num
26:13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of
the Shaulites.
Num
26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand
two hundred.
Num
26:15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of
the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the
family of the Shunites;
Num
26:16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the
Erites;
Num
26:17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of
the Arelites.
Num
26:18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those
who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
Num
26:19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the
land of Canaan.
Num
26:20 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the
family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of
Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
Num
26:21 The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the
Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
Num
26:22 These are the families of Judah according to those who were
numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.
Num
26:23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of
Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the
Punites;
Num
26:24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the
family of the Shimronites.
Num
26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to those who were
numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.
Num
26:26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family
of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel,
the family of the Jahleelites.
Num
26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those
who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred.
Num
26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Num
26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites;
and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the
Gileadites.
Num
26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of
Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the
Helekites;
Num
26:31 and of
Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of
Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
Num
26:32 and of
Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of
Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Num
26:33 Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and
the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah,
Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Num
26:34 These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were
numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
Num
26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of
the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
Num
26:36 These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the
Eranites.
Num
26:37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to
those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred.
These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
Num
26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family
of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram,
the family of the Ahiramites;
Num
26:39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the
family of the Huphamites.
Num
26:40 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of
Ard, the family of the Ardites; of
Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
Num
26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those
who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
Num
26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the
family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their
families.
Num
26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who
were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
Num
26:44 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family
of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the
family of the Berites.
Num
26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites;
of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
Num
26:46 The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
Num
26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those
who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
Num
26:48 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the
family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
Num
26:49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family
of the Shillemites.
Num
26:50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their
families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five
thousand four hundred.
Num
26:51 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel,
six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.
Num
26:52 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
26:53 To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance
according to the number of names.
Num
26:54 To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the
fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to
those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.
Num
26:55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according
to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Num
26:56 According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided
between the more and the fewer.
Num
26:57 These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their
families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the
family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
Num
26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites,
the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family
of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the
father of Amram.
Num
26:59 The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi,
who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses,
and Miriam their sister.
Num
26:60 To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Num
26:61 Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before
Yahweh.
Num
26:62 Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand,
every male from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered
among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given
them among the children of Israel.
Num
26:63 These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by
the Jordan at Jericho.
Num
26:64 But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered
by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in
the wilderness of Sinai.
Num
26:65 For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die in the
wilderness. There was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Apr.
18
Numbers
27, 28
Num
27:1 Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher,
the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of
his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
Num
27:2 They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and
before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent
of Meeting, saying,
Num
27:3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the
company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in
the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
Num
27:4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his
family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the
brothers of our father.
Num
27:5 Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
Num
27:6 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
27:7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give
them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers;
and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
Num
27:8 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man
die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to
his daughter.
Num
27:9 If he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to
his brothers.
Num
27:10 If he have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to
his father's brothers.
Num
27:11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his
inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he
shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute
and
ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
27:12 Yahweh said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and
see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
Num
27:13 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your
people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
Num
27:14 because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin,
in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters
before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the
wilderness of Zin.)
Num
27:15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
Num
27:16 Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man
over the congregation,
Num
27:17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them,
and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the
congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd.
Num
27:18 Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in
whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
Num
27:19 and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation; and commission him in their sight.
Num
27:20 You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation
of the children of Israel may obey.
Num
27:21 He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire
for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall
they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the
children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
Num
27:22 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set
him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
Num
27:23 and he laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as Yahweh
spoke by Moses.
Num
28:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
28:2 Command the children of Israel, and tell them, My offering, my
food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you
shall observe to offer to me in their due season.
Num
28:3 You shall tell them, This is the offering made by fire which
you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without blemish, two
day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
Num
28:4 You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall
offer the other lamb at evening;
Num
28:5 with the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal
offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
Num
28:6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount
Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Num
28:7 Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the
one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to
Yahweh in the holy place.
Num
28:8 The other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the meal offering
of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall offer it,
an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
Num
28:9 On the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish,
and two tenth parts of an ephah
of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and the drink
offering of it:
Num
28:10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the
continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.
Num
28:11 In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt
offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
28:12 and three tenth parts of an ephah
of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and
two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil,
for the one ram;
Num
28:13 and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an
offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Num
28:14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull,
and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin
for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the
months of the year.
Num
28:15 One male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh; it shall be
offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering
of it.
Num
28:16 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is
Yahweh's Passover.
Num
28:17 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven
days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Num
28:18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no
servile work;
Num
28:19 but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering
to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year
old; they shall be to you without blemish;
Num
28:20 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: you shall
offer three tenth parts for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram.
Num
28:21 You shall offer a tenth part for every lamb of the seven
lambs;
Num
28:22 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for
you.
Num
28:23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the
morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
Num
28:24 After this manner you shall offer daily, for seven days, the
food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: it
shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink
offering of it.
Num
28:25 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you
shall do no servile work.
Num
28:26 Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal
offering to Yahweh in your feast of
weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile
work;
Num
28:27 but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
Num
28:28 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three
tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,
Num
28:29 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
Num
28:30 one male goat, to make atonement for you.
Num
28:31 Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of
it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and
their drink offerings.
Apr.
16, 17
Luke 10
Luk
10:1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others,
and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place,
where he was about to come.
Luk
10:2 Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful,
but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest,
that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Luk
10:3 Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
Luk
10:4 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the
way.
Luk
10:5 Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this
house.'
Luk
10:6 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if
not, it will return to you.
Luk
10:7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they
give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to
house.
Luk
10:8 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the
things that are set before you.
Luk
10:9 Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, 'The Kingdom of
God has come near to you.'
Luk
10:10 But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you,
go out into its streets and say,
Luk
10:11 'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off
against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come
near to you.'
Luk
10:12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom
than for that city.
Luk
10:13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the
mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Luk
10:14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the
judgment than for you.
Luk
10:15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought
down to Hades.
Luk
10:16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you
rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
Luk
10:17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the
demons are subject to us in your name!"
Luk
10:18 He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like
lightning from heaven.
Luk
10:19 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any
way hurt you.
Luk
10:20 Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the spirits are
subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
Luk
10:21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said,
"I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have
hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed
them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in
your sight."
Luk
10:22 Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been
delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the
Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the
Son desires to reveal him."
Luk
10:23 Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are
the eyes which see the things that you see,
Luk
10:24 for I tell you that many prophets and kings 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."
Luk
10:25 Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying,
"Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Luk
10:26 He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you
read it?"
Luk
10:27 He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all
your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
Luk
10:28 He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this,
and you will live."
Luk
10:29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is
my neighbor?"
Luk
10:30 Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from
Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped
him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luk
10:31 By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he
saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Luk
10:32 In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and
saw him, passed by on the other side.
Luk
10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was.
When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
Luk
10:34 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took
care of him.
Luk
10:35 On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii,
and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him.
Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'
Luk
10:36 Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor
to him who fell among the robbers?"
Luk
10:37 He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus
said to him, "Go and do likewise."
Luk
10:38 It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a
certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into
her house.
Luk
10:39 She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet, and
heard his word.
Luk
10:40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up
to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me
to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."
Luk
10:41 Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and
troubled about many things,
Luk
10:42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which
will not be taken away from her."
Apr.
18
Luke 11
Luk
11:1 It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place,
one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just
as John also taught his disciples."
Luk
11:2 He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in
heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your
will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven.
Luk
11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luk
11:4 Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who
is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from
the evil one.' "
Luk
11:5 He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at
midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
Luk
11:6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have
nothing to set before him,'
Luk
11:7 and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The
door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up
and give it to you'?
Luk
11:8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him
because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get
up and give him as many as he needs.
Luk
11:9 "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep
seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to
you.
Luk
11:10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who
knocks it will be opened.
Luk
11:11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will
give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake
instead of a fish, will he?
Luk
11:12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will
he?
Luk
11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to those who ask him?"
Luk
11:14 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when
the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes
marveled.
Luk
11:15 But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul,
the prince of the demons."
Luk
11:16 Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
Luk
11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every
kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house
divided against itself falls.
Luk
11:18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom
stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
Luk
11:19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your
children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges.
Luk
11:20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the
Kingdom of God has come to you.
Luk
11:21 "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own
dwelling, his goods are safe.
Luk
11:22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he
takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his
spoils.
Luk
11:23 "He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't
gather with me scatters.
Luk
11:24 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes
through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I will
turn back to my house from which I came out.'
Luk
11:25 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.
Luk
11:26 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than
himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that
man becomes worse than the first."
Luk
11:27 It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out
of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed
is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"
Luk
11:28 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear
the word of God, and keep it."
Luk
11:29 When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began
to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No
sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
Luk
11:30 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also
the Son of Man be to this generation.
Luk
11:31 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the
men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the
ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one
greater than Solomon is here.
Luk
11:32 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this
generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching
of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
Luk
11:33 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or
under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the
light.
Luk
11:34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is
good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil,
your body also is full of darkness.
Luk
11:35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.
Luk
11:36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part
dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its
bright shining gives you light."
Luk
11:37 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with
him. He went in, and sat at the table.
Luk
11:38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first
washed himself before dinner.
Luk
11:39 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the
outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full
of extortion and wickedness.
Luk
11:40 You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make the
inside also?
Luk
11:41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within,
and behold, all things will be clean to you.
Luk
11:42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every
herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have
done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Luk
11:43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the
synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
Luk
11:44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are
like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."
Luk
11:45 One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this
you insult us also."
Luk
11:46 He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with
burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even
lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
Luk
11:47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your
fathers killed them.
Luk
11:48 So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For
they killed them, and you build their tombs.
Luk
11:49 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them
prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
Luk
11:50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the
foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luk
11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished
between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be
required of this generation.
Luk
11:52 Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge.
You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you
hindered."
Luk
11:53 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees
began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
Luk
11:54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something
he might say, that they might accuse him.
