Feb.
4
Genesis
35
Gen
35:1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live
there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled
from the face of Esau your brother."
Gen
35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him,
"Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify
yourselves, change your garments.
Gen
35:3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar
to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in
the way which I went."
Gen
35:4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their
hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them
under the oak which was by Shechem.
Gen
35:5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were
around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
Gen
35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land
of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Gen
35:7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El;
because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of
his brother.
Gen
35:8 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel
under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
Gen
35:9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and
blessed him.
Gen
35:10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not
be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him
Israel.
Gen
35:11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and
multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and
kings will come out of your body.
Gen
35:12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to
you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
Gen
35:13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
Gen
35:14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a
pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil
on it.
Gen
35:15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him
"Bethel."
Gen
35:16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to
come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Gen
35:17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't
be afraid, for now you will have another son."
Gen
35:18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that
she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Gen
35:19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same
is Bethlehem).
Gen
35:20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of
Rachel's grave to this day.
Gen
35:21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
Gen
35:22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went
and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Gen
35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi,
Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Gen
35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen
35:25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.
Gen
35:26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These
are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Gen
35:27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba
(which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
Gen
35:28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
Gen
35:29 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his
people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
Feb. 4, 5
Matthew 18
Mat 18:1 In that hour
the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in
the Kingdom of Heaven?"
Mat 18:2 Jesus called a
little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them,
Mat 18:3 and said,
"Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as
little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mat 18:4 Whoever
therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the
greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mat 18:5 Whoever
receives one such little child in my name receives me,
Mat 18:6 but whoever
causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it
would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around
his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
Mat 18:7 "Woe to
the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the
occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion
comes!
Mat 18:8 If your hand
or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather
than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
Mat 18:9 If your eye
causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is
better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having
two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
Mat 18:10 See that you
don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven
their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 18:11 For the Son
of Man came to save that which was lost.
Mat 18:12 "What do
you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes
astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and
seek that which has gone astray?
Mat 18:13 If he finds
it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the
ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
Mat 18:14 Even so it is
not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little
ones should perish.
Mat 18:15 "If your
brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him
alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
Mat 18:16 But if he
doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of
two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Mat 18:17 If he refuses
to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the
assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
Mat 18:18 Most
certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have
been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will
have been released in heaven.
Mat 18:19 Again,
assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth
concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by
my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 18:20 For where two
or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of
them."
Mat 18:21 Then Peter
came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin
against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
Mat 18:22 Jesus said to
him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy
times seven.
Mat 18:23 Therefore the
Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile
accounts with his servants.
Mat 18:24 When he had
begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand
talents.
Mat 18:25 But because
he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife,
his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Mat 18:26 The servant
therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have
patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
Mat 18:27 The lord of
that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave
him the debt.
Mat 18:28 "But
that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed
him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the
throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
Mat 18:29 "So his
fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have
patience with me, and I will repay you!'
Mat 18:30 He would not,
but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that
which was due.
Mat 18:31 So when his
fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and
came and told to their lord all that was done.
Mat 18:32 Then his lord
called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you
all that debt, because you begged me.
Mat 18:33 Shouldn't you
also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on
you?'
Mat 18:34 His lord was
angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all
that was due to him.
Mat 18:35 So my
heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your
brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."