Jan.
13
Genesis
13
Gen
13:1 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and
Lot with him, into the South.
Gen
13:2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Gen
13:3 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the
place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and
Ai,
Gen
13:4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the
first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
Gen
13:5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and
tents.
Gen
13:6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live
together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live
together.
Gen
13:7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock
and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the
Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
Gen
13:8 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between
me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are
relatives.
Gen
13:9 Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from
me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if
you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
Gen
13:10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan,
that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as
you go to Zoar.
Gen
13:11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled
east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Gen
13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities
of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Gen
13:13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners
against Yahweh.
Gen
13:14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now,
lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward
and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen
13:15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to
your offspring forever.
Gen
13:16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that
if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be
numbered.
Gen
13:17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth;
for I will give it to you."
Gen
13:18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre,
which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
Jan. 13,14
Matthew 7
Mat 7:1 "Don't
judge, so that you won't be judged.
Mat 7:2 For with
whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever
measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Mat 7:3 Why do you see
the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam
that is in your own eye?
Mat 7:4 Or how will you
tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and
behold, the beam is in your own eye?
Mat 7:5 You hypocrite!
First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see
clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
Mat 7:6 "Don't
give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before
the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn
and tear you to pieces.
Mat 7:7 "Ask, and
it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be
opened for you.
Mat 7:8 For everyone
who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be
opened.
Mat 7:9 Or who is there
among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Mat 7:10 Or if he asks
for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
Mat 7:11 If you then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much
more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who
ask him!
Mat 7:12 Therefore
whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them;
for this is the law and the prophets.
Mat 7:13 "Enter in
by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that
leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
Mat 7:14 How narrow is
the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those
who find it.
Mat 7:15 "Beware
of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
are ravening wolves.
Mat 7:16 By their
fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs
from thistles?
Mat 7:17 Even so, every
good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil
fruit.
Mat 7:18 A good tree
can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good
fruit.
Mat 7:19 Every tree
that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
Mat 7:20 Therefore, by
their fruits you will know them.
Mat 7:21 Not everyone
who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven;
but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will tell
me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your
name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?'
Mat 7:23 Then I will
tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'
Mat 7:24 "Everyone
therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken
him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
Mat 7:25 The rain came
down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house;
and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Mat 7:26 Everyone who
hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish
man, who built his house on the sand.
Mat 7:27 The rain came
down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house;
and it fell-and great was its fall."
Mat 7:28 It happened,
when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were
astonished at his teaching,
Mat 7:29 for he taught
them with authority, and not like the scribes.