Bible Reading for April 19 and 20
World English Bible
Apr.
19
Numbers
29, 30
Num
29:1 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall
have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of
blowing of trumpets to you.
Num
29:2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without
blemish;
Num
29:3 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth
parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram,
Num
29:4 and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
Num
29:5 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for
you;
Num
29:6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal
offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal
offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their
ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Num
29:7 On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy
convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no manner
of work;
Num
29:8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant
aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they
shall be to you without blemish;
Num
29:9 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth
parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,
Num
29:10 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:
Num
29:11 one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of
atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of
it, and their drink offerings.
Num
29:12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a
holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a
feast to Yahweh seven days:
Num
29:13 and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams,
fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
Num
29:14 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three
tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for
each ram of the two rams,
Num
29:15 and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
Num
29:16 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of
it.
Num
29:17 On the second day you shall offer
twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without
blemish;
Num
29:18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:19 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink
offerings.
Num
29:20 On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
29:21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:22 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering
of it.
Num
29:23 On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
29:24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls,
for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the
ordinance;
Num
29:25 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of
it.
Num
29:26 On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
29:27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:28 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering
of it.
Num
29:29 On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
29:30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:31 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings of
it.
Num
29:32 On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without blemish;
Num
29:33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:34 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of
it.
Num
29:35 On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall
do no servile work;
Num
29:36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male
lambs a year old without blemish;
Num
29:37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull,
for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number,
after the ordinance:
Num
29:38 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering
of it.
Num
29:39 You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides
your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and
for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your
peace offerings.
Num
29:40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Num
30:1 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of
Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.
Num
30:2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his
soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according
to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Num
30:3 Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a
bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
Num
30:4 and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has
bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her
vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul
shall stand.
Num
30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none
of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall
stand: and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father disallowed
her.
Num
30:6 If she be married
to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her
lips, with which she has bound her soul,
Num
30:7 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day
that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which
she has bound her soul shall stand.
Num
30:8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it,
then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash
utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh
will forgive her.
Num
30:9 But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, even
everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against
her.
Num
30:10 If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a
bond with an oath,
Num
30:11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and
didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond
with which she bound her soul shall stand.
Num
30:12 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he
heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her
vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her
husband has made them void; and Yahweh will forgive her.
Num
30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her
husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Num
30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day
to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are
on her: he has established them, because he held his peace at her in
the day that he heard them.
Num
30:15 But if he shall make them null and void after that he has
heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
Num
30:16 These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between
a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her
youth, in her father's house.
Apr.
20
Numbers
31, 32
Num
31:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
31:2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you
shall be gathered to your people.
Num
31:3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you for
the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's
vengeance on Midian.
Num
31:4 Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of
Israel, you shall send to the war.
Num
31:5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a
thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Num
31:6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them
and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the
vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
Num
31:7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they
killed every male.
Num
31:8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain:
Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian:
Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.
Num
31:9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and
their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and
all their goods, they took for a prey.
Num
31:10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all
their encampments, they burnt with fire.
Num
31:11 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of
animal.
Num
31:12 They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to
Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the
children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by
the Jordan at Jericho.
Num
31:13 Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.
Num
31:14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of
thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of
the war.
Num
31:15 Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
Num
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of
Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
Num
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman who has known man by lying with him.
Num
31:18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him,
keep alive for yourselves.
Num
31:19 Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any
person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the
third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
Num
31:20 As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all
work of goats' hair,
and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.
Num
31:21 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the
battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded
Moses:
Num
31:22 however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the
tin, and the lead,
Num
31:23 everything that may abide the fire, you shall make to go
through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be
purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand
the fire you shall make to go through the water.
Num
31:24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall
be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.
Num
31:25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
31:26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of
animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers'
houses of
the congregation;
Num
31:27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in
war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
Num
31:28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to
battle: one soul of five hundred, both
of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the
flocks:
Num
31:29 take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for
Yahweh's wave offering.
Num
31:30 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out
of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of
the flocks, even
of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the
duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh.
Num
31:31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war
took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
Num
31:33 and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
Num
31:34 and sixty-one thousand donkeys,
Num
31:35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had
not known man by lying with him.
Num
31:36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war,
was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
Num
31:37 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred
seventy-five.
Num
31:38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute
was seventy-two.
Num
31:39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which
Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
Num
31:40 The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute
was thirty-two persons.
Num
31:41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to
Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:42 Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from
the men who warred
Num
31:43 (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven
thousand five hundred sheep,
Num
31:44 and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
Num
31:45 and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
Num
31:46 and sixteen thousand persons),
Num
31:47 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn
out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the
Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as
Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the
captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to
Moses;
Num
31:49 and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of
the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man
of us.
Num
31:50 We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten,
of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings,
and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.
Num
31:51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all
worked jewels.
Num
31:52 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to
Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of
hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
Num
31:53 (For
the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
Num
31:54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting,
for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
Num
32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer,
and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for
livestock;
Num
32:2 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke
to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the
congregation, saying,
Num
32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and
Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Num
32:4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel,
is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.
Num
32:5 They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land
be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the
Jordan.
Num
32:6 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
Num
32:7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from
going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
Num
32:8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see
the land.
Num
32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they
should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
Num
32:10 Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,
Num
32:11 Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty
years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Num
32:12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the
son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh.
Num
32:13 Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them
wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the
generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.
Num
32:14 Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase
of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward
Israel.
Num
32:15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave
them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.
Num
32:16 They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here
for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:
Num
32:17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children
of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little
ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants
of the land.
Num
32:18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel
have inherited every man his inheritance.
Num
32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the
Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this
side of the Jordan eastward.
Num
32:20 Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm
yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
Num
32:21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before
Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
Num
32:22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you
shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel;
and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.
Num
32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against
Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
Num
32:24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep;
and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
Num
32:25 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses,
saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
Num
32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock,
shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
Num
32:27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for
war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.
Num
32:28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and
to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses
of the tribes of the children of Israel.
Num
32:29 Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to
battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then
you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
Num
32:30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have
possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
Num
32:31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
Num
32:32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan,
and the possession of our inheritance shall
remain with us beyond the Jordan.
Num
32:33 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of
Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with their
borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
Num
32:34 The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Num
32:35 and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
Num
32:36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds
for sheep.
Num
32:37 The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
Kiriathaim,
Num
32:38 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and
Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Num
32:39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and
took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
Num
32:40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived
therein.
Num
32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called
them Havvoth Jair.
Num
32:42 Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it
Nobah, after his own name.
Apr. 19
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.
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Luke 12
Luk
12:1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered
together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to
tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luk
12:2 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor
hidden, that will not be known.
Luk
12:3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard
in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers
will be proclaimed on the housetops.
Luk
12:4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill
the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luk
12:5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after
he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear
him.
Luk
12:6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one
of them is forgotten by God.
Luk
12:7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore
don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
Luk
12:8 "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him
will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
Luk
12:9 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in
the presence of the angels of God.
Luk
12:10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be
forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be
forgiven.
Luk
12:11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the
authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what
you will say;
Luk
12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you
must say."
Luk
12:13 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my
brother to divide the inheritance with me."
Luk
12:14 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an
arbitrator over you?"
Luk
12:15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from
covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of
the things which he possesses."
Luk
12:16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a
certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
Luk
12:17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I
don't have room to store my crops?'
Luk
12:18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns,
and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my
goods.
Luk
12:19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up
for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry." '
Luk
12:20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul
is required of you. The things which you have prepared-whose will
they be?'
Luk
12:21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich
toward God."
Luk
12:22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be
anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what
you will wear.
Luk
12:23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Luk
12:24 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they
have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable
are you than birds!
Luk
12:25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
Luk
12:26 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are
you anxious about the rest?
Luk
12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither
do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
Luk
12:28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which
today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will
he clothe you, O you of little faith?
Luk
12:29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither
be anxious.
Luk
12:30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things,
but your Father knows that you need these things.
Luk
12:31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to
you.
Luk
12:32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Luk
12:33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make
for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens
that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
Luk
12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luk
12:35 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning.
Luk
12:36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the
marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately
open to him.
Luk
12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching
when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself,
and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
Luk
12:38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch,
and finds them so.
Luk
12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in
what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not
allowed his house to be broken into.
Luk
12:40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an
hour that you don't expect him."
Luk
12:41 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to
us, or to everybody?"
Luk
12:42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise
steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them
their portion of food at the right times?
Luk
12:43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when
he comes.
Luk
12:44 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
Luk
12:45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his
coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and
to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
Luk
12:46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't
expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him
in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
Luk
12:47 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare,
nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
Luk
12:48 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will
be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will
much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be
asked.
Luk
12:49 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were
already kindled.
Luk
12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I
am until it is accomplished!
Luk
12:51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I
tell you, no, but rather division.
Luk
12:52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three.
Luk
12:53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against
father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law."
Luk
12:54 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud
rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and
so it happens.
Luk
12:55 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching
heat,' and it happens.
Luk
12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of
the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this
time?
Luk
12:57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
Luk
12:58 For when you are going with your adversary before the
magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest
perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the
officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
Luk
12:59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you
have paid the very last penny."
