Bible Reading
January 21
The World English Bible
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. Everyone 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."
