Jan.
21
Genesis
21
Gen
21:1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as
he had spoken.
Gen
21:2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the
set time of which God had spoken to him.
Gen
21:3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to
him, Isaac.
Gen
21:4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old,
as God had commanded him.
Gen
21:5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born
to him.
Gen
21:6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. EBveryone who hears
will laugh with me."
Gen
21:7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah
would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
Gen
21:8 The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on
the day that Isaac was weaned.
Gen
21:9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to
Abraham, mocking.
Gen
21:10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid
and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my
son, Isaac."
Gen
21:11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of
his son.
Gen
21:12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your
sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that
Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed
be called.
Gen
21:13 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because
he is your seed."
Gen
21:14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a
bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder;
and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered
in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Gen
21:15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs.
Gen
21:16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a
bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the
child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and
wept.
Gen
21:17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to
Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar?
Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Gen
21:18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will
make him a great nation."
Gen
21:19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went,
filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
Gen
21:20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness,
and became, as he grew up, an archer.
Gen
21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife
for him out of the land of Egypt.
Gen
21:22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the
captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you
in all that you do.
Gen
21:23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal
falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But
according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to
me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
Gen
21:24 Abraham said, "I will swear."
Gen
21:25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which
Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Gen
21:26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing.
Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
Gen
21:27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech.
Those two made a covenant.
Gen
21:28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Gen
21:29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs
which you have set by themselves mean?"
Gen
21:30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my
hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."
Gen
21:31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both
swore there.
Gen
21:32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with
Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of
the Philistines.
Gen
21:33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there
on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Gen
21:34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines
many days.
Jan. 21, 22
Matthew 11
Mat 11:1 It happened
that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he
departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
Mat 11:2 Now when John
heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
Mat 11:3 and said to
him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"
Mat 11:4 Jesus answered
them, "Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:
Mat 11:5 the blind
receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf
hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to
them.
Mat 11:6 Blessed is he
who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."
Mat 11:7 As these went
their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John,
"What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken
by the wind?
Mat 11:8 But what did
you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear
soft clothing are in king's houses.
Mat 11:9 But why did
you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a
prophet.
Mat 11:10 For this is
he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your
face, who will prepare your way before you.'
Mat 11:11 Most
certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not
arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in
the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
Mat 11:12 From the days
of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers
violence, and the violent take it by force.
Mat 11:13 For all the
prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Mat 11:14 If you are
willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
Mat 11:15 He who has
ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 11:16 "But to
what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in
the marketplaces, who call to their companions
Mat 11:17 and say, 'We
played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. We mourned for you,
and you didn't lament.'
Mat 11:18 For John came
neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'
Mat 11:19 The Son of
Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man
and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom
is justified by her children."
Mat 11:20 Then he began
to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been
done, because they didn't repent.
Mat 11:21 "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 in sackcloth and ashes.
Mat 11:22 But I tell
you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of
judgment than for you.
Mat 11:23 You,
Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For
if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it
would have remained until this day.
Mat 11:24 But I tell
you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day
of judgment, than for you."
Mat 11:25 At that time,
Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and
revealed them to infants.
Mat 11:26 Yes, Father,
for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Mat 11:27 All things
have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except
the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and
he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
Mat 11:28 "Come to
me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you
rest.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke
upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and
you will find rest for your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke
is easy, and my burden is light."