Jan.
31
Genesis
31
Gen
31:1 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has
taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our
father's, has he gotten all this wealth."
Gen
31:2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was
not toward him as before.
Gen
31:3 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers,
and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
Gen
31:4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his
flock,
Gen
31:5 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's
face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father
has been with me.
Gen
31:6 You know that I have served your father with all of my
strength.
Gen
31:7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times,
but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
Gen
31:8 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all
the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your
wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
Gen
31:9 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them
to me.
Gen
31:10 It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and
saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock
were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
Gen
31:11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said,
'Here I am.'
Gen
31:12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male
goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled,
for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
Gen
31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you
vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to
the land of your birth.' "
Gen
31:14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion
or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Gen
31:15 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us,
and has also quite devoured our money.
Gen
31:16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father,
that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to
you, do."
Gen
31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the
camels,
Gen
31:18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions
which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in
Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
Gen
31:19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the
teraphim that were her father's.
Gen
31:20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him
that he was running away.
Gen
31:21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the
River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
Gen
31:22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
Gen
31:23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven
days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
Gen
31:24 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and
said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to
Jacob either good or bad."
Gen
31:25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain
of Gilead.
Gen
31:26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have
deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the
sword?
Gen
31:27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me,
that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with
tambourine and with harp;
Gen
31:28 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have
you done foolishly.
Gen
31:29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your
father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that
you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
Gen
31:30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your
father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
Gen
31:31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said,
'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
Gen
31:32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our
relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For
Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
Gen
31:33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the
tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out
of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
Gen
31:34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's
saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't
find them.
Gen
31:35 She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that
I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me."
He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
Gen
31:36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban,
"What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly
pursued after me?
Gen
31:37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you
found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives
and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
Gen
31:38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your
female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams
of your flocks.
Gen
31:39 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore
its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen
by night.
Gen
31:40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and
the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Gen
31:41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you
fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock,
and you have changed my wages ten times.
Gen
31:42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear
of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away
empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and
rebuked you last night."
Gen
31:43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters,
the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that
you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or
to their children whom they have borne?
Gen
31:44 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for
a witness between me and you."
Gen
31:45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Gen
31:46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They
took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
Gen
31:47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Gen
31:48 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this
day." Therefore it was named Galeed
Gen
31:49 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and
you, when we are absent one from another.
Gen
31:50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my
daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and
you."
Gen
31:51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar,
which I have set between me and you.
Gen
31:52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that
I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass
over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
Gen
31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his
father, Isaac.
Gen
31:54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his
relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the
mountain.
Gen
31:55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and
his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his
place.
Jan. 31 and Feb. 1
Matthew 16
Mat 16:1 The Pharisees
and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign
from heaven.
Mat 16:2 But he
answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair
weather, for the sky is red.'
Mat 16:3 In the
morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and
threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of
the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!
Mat 16:4 An evil and
adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign
given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left
them, and departed.
Mat 16:5 The disciples
came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.
Mat 16:6 Jesus said to
them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and
Sadducees."
Mat 16:7 They reasoned
among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread."
Mat 16:8 Jesus,
perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of
little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'
Mat 16:9 Don't you yet
perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and
how many baskets you took up?
Mat 16:10 Nor the seven
loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Mat 16:11 How is it
that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread?
But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Mat 16:12 Then they
understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread,
but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mat 16:13 Now when
Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his
disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
Mat 16:14 They said,
"Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah,
or one of the prophets."
Mat 16:15 He said to
them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Mat 16:16 Simon Peter
answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mat 16:17 Jesus
answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and
blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 16:18 I also tell
you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly,
and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19 I will give
to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on
earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on
earth will have been released in heaven."
Mat 16:20 Then he
commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he is Jesus
the Christ.
Mat 16:21 From that
time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem
and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes,
and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
Mat 16:22 Peter took
him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you,
Lord! This will never be done to you."
Mat 16:23 But he
turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a
stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the
things of God, but on the things of men."
Mat 16:24 Then Jesus
said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let
him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mat 16:25 For whoever
desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life
for my sake will find it.
Mat 16:26 For what will
it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life?
Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Mat 16:27 For the Son
of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then
he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
Mat 16:28 Most
certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way
taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."
