Jan.
15
Genesis
15
Gen
15:1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a
vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your
exceedingly great reward."
Gen
15:2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I
go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of
Damascus?"
Gen
15:3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and,
behold, one born in my house is my heir."
Gen
15:4 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man
will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own
body will be your heir."
Gen
15:5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the
sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He
said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
Gen
15:6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for
righteousness.
Gen
15:7 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of
the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
Gen
15:8 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit
it?"
Gen
15:9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a
female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and
a young pigeon."
Gen
15:10 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle,
and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the
birds.
Gen
15:11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove
them away.
Gen
15:12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now
terror and great darkness fell on him.
Gen
15:13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live
as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They
will afflict them four hundred years.
Gen
15:14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward
they will come out with great wealth,
Gen
15:15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried
in a good old age.
Gen
15:16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the
iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
Gen
15:17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark,
behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these
pieces.
Gen
15:18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To
your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the
great river, the river Euphrates:
Gen
15:19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Gen
15:20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Gen
15:21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the
Jebusites."
Jan. 15, 16
Matthew 8
Mat 8:1 When he came
down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
Mat 8:2 Behold, a leper
came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to,
you can make me clean."
Mat 8:3 Jesus stretched
out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made
clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Mat 8:4 Jesus said to
him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the
priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to
them."
Mat 8:5 When he came
into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,
Mat 8:6 and saying,
"Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously
tormented."
Mat 8:7 Jesus said to
him, "I will come and heal him."
Mat 8:8 The centurion
answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof.
Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Mat 8:9 For I am also a
man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one,
'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell
my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
Mat 8:10 When Jesus
heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most
certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in
Israel.
Mat 8:11 I tell you
that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
Mat 8:12 but the
children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness.
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Mat 8:13 Jesus said to
the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have
believed." His servant was healed in that hour.
Mat 8:14 When Jesus
came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a
fever.
Mat 8:15 He touched her
hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.
Mat 8:16 When evening
came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the
spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
Mat 8:17 that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He
took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."
Mat 8:18 Now when Jesus
saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the
other side.
Mat 8:19 A scribe came,
and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
Mat 8:20 Jesus said to
him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
Mat 8:21 Another of his
disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my
father."
Mat 8:22 But Jesus said
to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
Mat 8:23 When he got
into a boat, his disciples followed him.
Mat 8:24 Behold, a
violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered
with the waves, but he was asleep.
Mat 8:25 They came to
him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"
Mat 8:26 He said to
them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he
got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Mat 8:27 The men
marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind
and the sea obey him?"
Mat 8:28 When he came
to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people
possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs,
exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.
Mat 8:29 Behold, they
cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son
of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
Mat 8:30 Now there was
a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.
Mat 8:31 The demons
begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away
into the herd of pigs."
Mat 8:32 He said to
them, "Go!" They came out, and went into the herd of pigs:
and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the
sea, and died in the water.
Mat 8:33 Those who fed
them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything,
including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.
Mat 8:34 Behold, all
the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that
he would depart from their borders.