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16003

We must pay for the water we drink;
our wood comes at a price.

16004

A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years, who had spent all she had on doctors yet could not be healed by any,

16005

N What is this coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
scented with myrrh and frankincense
from every fragrant powder of the merchant?

16006

Some time passed after these events. Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard; it was in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

16007

You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God:

My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and lived there. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

16008

She has sent out her female servants;
she calls out from the highest points of the city:

16009

If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

16010

So David hid in the field.

At the New Moon, the king sat down to eat the meal.

16012

Agrippa said to Paul, “It is permitted for you to speak for yourself.”

Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:

16014

Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants, so he called out, “Send everyone away from me!” No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.

16015

Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for Me.

16016

“As I was traveling and near Damascus, about noon an intense light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

16017

When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and beached the boat.

16018

He is to slaughter the male lamb at the place in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered, for like the sin offering, the restitution offering belongs to the priest; it is especially holy.

16019

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?”

16020

Every day while I was with you in the temple complex, you never laid a hand on Me. But this is your hour—and the dominion of darkness.”

16021

You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.

16023

Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, so he got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar.

16025

He will revive us after two days,
and on the third day He will raise us up
so we can live in His presence.

16026

Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

16027

Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him.

16028

“I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works that I do in My Father’s name testify about Me.

16029

But the angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.

16030

They will not stay in the land of the Lord.
Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt,
and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

16031

“Come, eat my bread,
and drink the wine I have mixed.

16032

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

16033

If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

16034

He was 25 years old when he became king and reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi daughter of Zechariah.

16035

They went up, wept before the Lord until evening, and inquired of Him: “Should we again fight against our brothers the Benjaminites?”

And the Lord answered: “Fight against them.”

16036

Every day He was teaching in the temple complex. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were looking for a way to destroy Him,

16037

Moses and Aaron then entered the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.

16038

Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me, because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat devastated until the evening offering.

16040

It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.

16041

Then the Lord said to him, “Go and return by the way you came to the Wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.

16042

Pilate called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people,

16043

The wicked will return to Sheol
all the nations that forget God.

16044

“‘No,’ he said. ‘When you gather up the weeds, you might also uproot the wheat with them.

16045

even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

16046

Whether it was two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. But when it was lifted, they set out.

16047

Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.

16048

And they started to call Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the main speaker.

16049

they acted deceptively. They gathered provisions and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

16050

I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

16051

When he was called in, Tertullus began to accuse him and said: “Since we enjoy great peace because of you, and reforms are taking place for the benefit of this nation by your foresight,

16053

I will stand at my guard post
and station myself on the lookout tower.
I will watch to see what He will say to me
and what I should reply about my complaint.

16054

As I was watching, this horn waged war against the holy ones and was prevailing over them

16055

Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it must be put to death.

16056

But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s!”

16057

They divided my garments among themselves,
and they cast lots for my clothing.

16058

Judah, your brothers will praise you.
Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies;
your father’s sons will bow down to you.

16059

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

16060

The offerer must present all the fat from it: the fat tail, the fat surrounding the entrails,

16061

But if anyone suffers as a “Christian,” he should not be ashamed but should glorify God in having that name.

16062

For Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them. He cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

16063

So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

16064

“All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

16066

I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.

16067

Jesus replied to them, “The healthy don’t need a doctor, but the sick do.

16068

When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today I must stay at your house.”

16069

When the chief priests and the temple police saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate responded, “Take Him and crucify Him yourselves, for I find no grounds for charging Him.”

16070

since we have been rescued
from our enemies’ clutches,
to serve Him without fear

16071

A sharp sword came from His mouth, so that He might strike the nations with it. He will shepherd them with an iron scepter. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty.

16072

“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him

16074

As you were watching, a stone broke off without a hand touching it, struck the statue on its feet of iron and fired clay, and crushed them.

16075

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

16076

How is it that each of us can hear in our own native language?

16078

When the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching Him—she’s a sinner!”

16079

If only these people were in my power, I would remove Abimelech.” So he said to Abimelech, “Gather your army and come out.”

16080

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

16082

His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

16083

and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,

16085

For the Lord of Hosts says this: “Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

16086

but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

16087

If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching that you have followed.

16093

“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never go out, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

16094

But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don’t You care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”

16095

But I will leave 7,000 in Israel—every knee that has not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

16096

Speak up and present your case
yes, let them take counsel together.
Who predicted this long ago?
Who announced it from ancient times?
Was it not I, Yahweh?
There is no other God but Me,
a righteous God and Savior;
there is no one except Me.

16098

The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

16099

I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between his brothers?

16100

For I have given them the tenth that the Israelites present to the Lord as a contribution for their inheritance. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

16101

You must observe it at its appointed time on the fourteenth day of this month at twilight; you are to observe it according to all its statutes and ordinances.”

16103

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be concerned about the boy and your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

16105

“Jesus the Nazarene,” they answered.

“I am He,” Jesus told them.

Judas, who betrayed Him, was also standing with them.

16106

Those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had convened.

16107

In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around.

16108

He will not show regard for the gods of his fathers, the god longed for by women, or for any other god, because he will magnify himself above all.

16109

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to His disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

16111

In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was among the exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.

16114

The word of the Lord came to me:

16116

I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

16119

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted.

16120

Others fell on rocky ground, where there wasn’t much soil, and they sprang up quickly since the soil wasn’t deep.

16121

He exercises all the authority of the first beast on his behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

16122

I will ascend above the highest clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”

16124

“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

16125

In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent the court secretary Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple, saying,

16126

So now, kill all the male children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man,

16127

For whoever is not against us is for us.

16128

Another angel, with a gold incense burner, came and stood at the altar. He was given a large amount of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar in front of the throne.

16129

The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

16131

“If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, you are to support him as a foreigner or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.

16132

Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?

16133

Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

16134

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.

16135

But if you are without discipline—which all receive—then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

16136

So Pilate decided to grant their demand

16138

Then I saw another angel, who had the seal of the living God rise up from the east. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were empowered to harm the earth and the sea:

16139

Don’t be afraid, land;
rejoice and be glad,
for the Lord has done great things.

16140

And she did this for many days.

But Paul was greatly aggravated and turning to the spirit, said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out right away.

16141

Instead, believer goes to court against believer, and that before unbelievers!

16142

Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the older women and little children, but do not come near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

16143

They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive greater punishment.”

16144

The border reached Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan—16 cities, with their villages.

16145

And their word will spread like gangrene; Hymenaeus and Philetus are among them.

16146

Then Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah came to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but were not able to conquer him.

16147

The seed along the path are those who have heard and then the Devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

16148

This is what the Lord says:

Do not learn the way of the nations
or be terrified by signs in the heavens,
although the nations are terrified by them,

16149

Jacob then named the place Peniel, “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “and I have been delivered.”

16150

Moses came and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, “We will do everything that the Lord has commanded.”

16151

Tell your children about it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children the next generation.

16152

For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.

16153

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.

16154

[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]

16155

And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,
the day has come
for your punishment.”

16156

And He who searches the hearts knows the Spirit’s mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

16157

On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers—as they are today—for the community and for the Lord’s altar at the place He would choose.

16158

the pig, though it has divided hooves,
does not chew the cud—it is unclean for you.

16159

And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times.

16160

Your corpses will fall in this wilderness—all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you 20 years old or more—because you have complained about Me.

16161

They inquired into what time or what circumstances the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when He testified in advance to the messianic sufferings and the glories that would follow.

16162

Nadab son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Judah’s King Asa; he reigned over Israel two years.

16163

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

16164

But I will bring you health
and will heal you of your wounds—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
for they call you Outcast,
Zion whom no one cares about.

16165

But I didn’t see any of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.

16166

From the Issacharites, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command.

16167

“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with 10 curtains. You must make them of finely spun linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with a design of cherubim worked into them.

16168

This became known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. Then fear fell on all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

16169

Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

16170

He made the cast metal reservoir, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.

16172

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”

16173

Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherub where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. He called to the man clothed in linen with the writing equipment at his side.

16174

“I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that today I am going to make a defense before you about everything I am accused of by the Jews,

16177

At that, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple complex.

16178

And they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means Skull Place).

16179

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

16180

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.

“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.

16181

For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.


Today, if you hear His voice:

16182

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?

16184

They will crush you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

16185

It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown in the soil, is smaller than all the seeds on the ground.

16186

His wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

16187

Anah’s son: Dishon.
Dishon’s sons: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

16188

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.

16189

But since My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me completely, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.

16190

One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires;
he rebels against all sound judgment.

16192

The tribe of Zebulun will be next. The leader of the Zebulunites is Eliab son of Helon.

16193

“You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to 49.

16196

This is the covenant I will make with them
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws on their hearts
and write them on their minds,

16197

Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah,

16198

Don’t be deceived, my dearly loved brothers.

16199

Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

16200

But He told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.”

16201

Then a champion named Goliath, from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was nine feet, nine inches tall

16202

On that day Israel will form a triple alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing within the land.

16204

The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and got to the tomb first.

16206

Then Elisha prayed, “Lord, please open his eyes and let him see.” So the Lord opened the servant’s eyes. He looked and saw that the mountain was covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

16207

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.

16208

turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

16209

and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” So they weighed out 30 pieces of silver for him.

16210

Then he went to Tarsus to search for Saul,

16211

For you yourselves know, brothers, that our visit with you was not without result.

16212

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.

16215

for indeed, you will conceive and give birth to a son. You must never cut his hair, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth, and he will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines.”

16217

If you have no money to pay,
even your bed will be taken from under you.

16218

So Samuel took the horn of oil, anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord took control of David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

16219

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes.

16220

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause.”

16221

Blow the horn in Zion!
Announce a sacred fast;
proclaim an assembly.

16222

Anguish is coming!
They will seek peace, but there will be none.

16223

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you,

16224

For this oil might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor.” And they began to scold her.

16225

Luke, the dearly loved physician, and Demas greet you.

16226

Give to everyone who asks you, and from one who takes your things, don’t ask for them back.

16227

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

16228

Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

16229

The secret of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

16230

A voice was saying, “Cry out!”
Another said, “What should I cry out?”
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.

16232

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

16234

But all who knew Him, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

16235

I will hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land, where neither of you were born, and there you will both die.

16237

The Lord spoke to Moses:

16238

Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not know it was Jesus.

16240

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

16241

because His judgments are true and righteous,
because He has judged the notorious prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality;
and He has avenged the blood of His slaves
that was on her hands.

16242

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

16243

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal depth. While the Egyptians were trying to escape from it, the Lord threw them into the sea.

16244

I have placed My bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

16245

You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and He was angry enough with you to destroy you.

16246

“Which ones?” he asked Him. Jesus answered:

Do not murder;
do not commit adultery;
do not steal;
do not bear false witness;

16247

Approach Me and listen to this.
From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time anything existed, I was there.”
And now the Lord God
has sent me and His Spirit.

16248

The one who lives with integrity is righteous;
his children who come after him will be happy.

16249

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with a firm resolve of the heart,

16250

For even if they flee from devastation,
Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.
Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;
thorns will invade their tents.

16252

By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the One who had promised was faithful.

16253

Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

16255

When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival.

16256

“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created man on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

16257

I want you to be without concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord.

16258

What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba
or sweet cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable;
your sacrifices do not please Me.

16260

So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don’t make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow!”

16261

Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.

16262

After He says above, You did not want or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law),

16263

I will boast about this person, but not about myself, except of my weaknesses.

16265

If only You would tear the heavens open
and come down,
so that mountains would quake at Your presence

16266

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

16267

Then the crowds who went ahead of Him and those who followed kept shouting:

Hosanna to the Son of David!
He who comes in the name
of the Lord is the blessed One!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!

16268

“The Lord of Hosts says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”

16269

Sing for joy, Daughter Zion;
shout loudly, Israel!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,
Daughter Jerusalem!

16270

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.
        His love is eternal.

16273

For the choir director. A song. A psalm.Shout joyfully to God, all the earth!

16274

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.

16275

I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”

16276

So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected—
this One has become the cornerstone,

16277

Just as they were going out, a demon-possessed man who was unable to speak was brought to Him.

16278

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering; make atonement for yourself and the people. Sacrifice the people’s offering and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded.”

16280

And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be alert!”

16281

but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

16282

If I say, “I won’t mention Him
or speak any longer in His name,”
His message becomes a fire burning in my heart,
shut up in my bones.
I become tired of holding it in,
and I cannot prevail.

16283

one male goat for a sin offering;

16285

The Angel of the Lord went ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left.

16286

who testified to God’s word and to the testimony about Jesus Christ, in all he saw.

16291

and to James the son of Zebedee,
and to his brother John,
He gave the name “Boanerges”
(that is, “Sons of Thunder”);

16292

Then the Angel of God, who was going in front of the Israelite forces, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and stood behind them.

16293

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

16294

Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones;
praise from the upright is beautiful.

16296

Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David.

16297

for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

16298

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

16299

When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and in the middle of the night the sailors thought they were approaching land.

16300

For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.

16301

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

16302

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its purchaser throughout his generations. It is not to be released on the Jubilee.

16303

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you;
ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

16304

Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers of the earth.
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.

16305

Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

16306

even if these three men were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their sons or daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

16310

Understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day He will give you two days’ worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.”

16311

The Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

16314

Judah’s military divisions will camp on the east side toward the sunrise under their banner. The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

16316

I will appoint over them a single shepherd, My servant David, and he will shepherd them. He will tend them himself and will be their shepherd.

16317

Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak;
listen, earth, to the words of my mouth.

16319

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. See to it yourselves!”

16321

Herod was very glad to see Jesus; for a long time he had wanted to see Him because he had heard about Him and was hoping to see some miracle performed by Him.

16323

But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a man.

16325

Each one betrays his friend;
no one tells the truth.
They have taught their tongues to speak lies;
they wear themselves out doing wrong.

16326

But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

16328

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

16330

indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber
and increases those among men who are unfaithful.

16331

Dear friend, I pray that you may prosper in every way and be in good health physically just as you are spiritually.

16332

Their tongues are deadly arrows—
they speak deception.
With his mouth
a man speaks peaceably with his friend,
but inwardly he sets up an ambush.

16335

Answer me, Lord! Answer me so that this people will know that You, Yahweh, are God and that You have turned their hearts back.”

16338

Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “See, I am placing you over all the land of Egypt.”

16339

and they observed it in the first month on the fourteenth day at twilight in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as the Lord had commanded Moses.

16341

This testimony is true. So, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith

16342

Lord, the earth is filled with Your faithful love;
teach me Your statutes.

16343

where

Their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.

16344

Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle.

16346

There in front of Him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.

16347

Offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. Your animals are to be unblemished.

16348

After He had said these things, He stayed in Galilee.

16349

John himself had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

16350

Noah was 500 years old, and he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

16351

At once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.

16352

After some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and listened to him on the subject of faith in Christ Jesus.

16355

“Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol on your foreheads.

16358

And He did not speak to them without a parable. Privately, however, He would explain everything to His own disciples.

16359

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul away to go to the sea, but Silas and Timothy stayed on there.

16360

“When all these things happen to you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,

16361

“Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Booths to the Lord begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.

16362

After tying Him up, they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate, the governor.

16364

The men of Israel replied to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

16365

But the olive tree said to them,
“Should I stop giving my oil
that honors both God and man,
and rule over the trees?”

16367

These are the names of the 12 apostles:

First, Simon, who is called Peter,
and Andrew his brother;
James the son of Zebedee,
and John his brother;

16368

So they went out to the countryside and harvested grapes from their vineyards. They trampled the grapes and held a celebration. Then they went to the house of their god, and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.

16369

“Here is the mind with wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated.

16371

The first went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and severely painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

16372

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown them to me.

16373

“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship Him with all your heart and all your soul,

16374

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.

16375

He will again have compassion on us;
He will vanquish our iniquities.
You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea.

16376

Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it You’re going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

16377

“As for you, you are to prophesy all these things to them, and say to them:

The Lord roars from heaven;
He raises His voice from His holy dwelling.
He roars loudly over His grazing land;
He calls out with a shout, like those who tread grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth.

16378

“Moses My servant is dead. Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan to the land I am giving the Israelites.

16379

They went in but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

16380

Amaziah killed 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.

16381

The Lord spoke to Moses:

16382

Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.

16383

but He will judge the poor righteously
and execute justice for the oppressed of the land.
He will strike the land
with discipline from His mouth,
and He will kill the wicked
with a command from His lips.

16384

He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf.

Then they said, “Israel, this is your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”

16385

And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

16386

Then she exclaimed with a loud cry:

“You are the most blessed of women,
and your child will be blessed!

16387

Timothy, my son, I am giving you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies previously made about you, so that by them you may strongly engage in battle,

16388

Then He came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. Look, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

16389

“Elijah is coming and will restore everything,” He replied.

16390

Are their tent cords not pulled up?
They die without wisdom.


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16391

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land. Please make a treaty with us.”

16392

His mouth is sweetness.
He is absolutely desirable.
This is my love, and this is my friend,
young women of Jerusalem.


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16393

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

16394

The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.

16395

and so that Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written:

Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles,
and I will sing psalms to Your name.

16397

Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron and its villages.

16398

they formed a unified alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel.

16399

And they were continually in the temple complex praising God.

16400

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that he had been sick.

16401

and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the sea.

16402

The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

16403

The priest will examine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest must pronounce the infected person clean; he is clean.

16404

“Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and joyful shouting—a sacred assembly.

16405

and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?”

“Yes,” Jesus told them. “Have you never read:

You have prepared praise
from the mouths of children and nursing infants?”

16406

Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling
and braced the knees that were buckling.

16407

Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.

16408

After they departed from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

16409

But as soon as they had relief,
they again did what was evil in Your sight.
So You abandoned them to the power of their enemies,
who dominated them.
When they cried out to You again,
You heard from heaven and rescued them
many times in Your compassion.

16410

God’s sanctuary in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His sanctuary. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings of thunder, an earthquake, and severe hail.

16411

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, so we can eat it.”

16414

But some were expressing indignation to one another: “Why has this fragrant oil been wasted?

16416

Yet, when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe it.

16417

It will never be inhabited
or lived in from generation to generation;
a nomad will not pitch his tent there,
and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.

16419

Our guilt has been terrible from the days of our fathers until the present. Because of our iniquities we have been handed over, along with our kings and priests, to the surrounding kings, and to the sword, captivity, plundering, and open shame, as it is today.

16420

A river of fire was flowing,
coming out from His presence.
Thousands upon thousands served Him;
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him.
The court was convened,
and the books were opened.

16421

and others experienced mockings and scourgings, as well as bonds and imprisonment.

16422

Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and anoint it in order to consecrate it.

16426

He saw them being battered as they rowed, because the wind was against them. Around three in the morning He came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them.

16427

A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

16428

God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.

16430

“Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the slaves of our God on their foreheads.”

16432

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

16433

(I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.)

16435

“We heard Him say, ‘I will demolish this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another not made by hands.’”

16436

far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

16437

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.

16438

The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along and observed the tomb and how His body was placed.

16439

The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail—the one who took the least gathered 50 bushels—and they spread them out all around the camp.

16440

Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to You. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

16441

“Therefore tell the Israelites: I am Yahweh, and I will deliver you from the forced labor of the Egyptians and free you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment.

16442

“If his gift is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to bring an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting so that he may be accepted by the Lord.

16443

We ourselves are witnesses of everything He did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, yet they killed Him by hanging Him on a tree.

16444

The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

16445

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.

16446

“The Lord was angry with me also because of you and said: ‘You will not enter there either.

16447

He will speak a message to you that you and all your household will be saved by.’

16449

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

16450

Be advised that tribute, duty, and land tax must not be imposed on any priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

16451

Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced and came to Jerusalem, and they took their position by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is by the highway to the Fuller’s Field.

16452

Moses said to the Lord, “Look, You have told me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. You said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’

16453

Heaven is My throne,
and earth My footstool.
What sort of house will you build for Me?
says the Lord,
or what is My resting place?

16455

While going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the 12 disciples aside privately and said to them on the way:

16456

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

16457

All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a qesitah and a gold earring.

16460

This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. You may take two quarts per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’”

16461

The Israelites mobilized, gathered supplies, and went to fight them. The Israelites camped in front of them like two little flocks of goats, while the Arameans filled the landscape.

16462

He was openly talking about this. So Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

16463

On the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

16464

For I Yahweh your God,
the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior,
give Egypt as a ransom for you,
Cush and Seba in your place.

16465

You live in a world of deception.
In their deception they refuse to know Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

16467

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please notice that the place where we live under your supervision is too small for us.

16468

Take note! I, Paul, tell you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all.

16470

And to you and your future offspring I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”

16471

The Spirit of the Lord took control of him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed 30 of their men. He stripped them and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. In a rage, Samson returned to his father’s house,

16473

or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

16474

But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where He started even to here.”

16475

He said:

The Lord came from Sinai
and appeared to them from Seir;
He shone on them from Mount Paran
and came with ten thousand holy ones,
with lightning from His right hand for them.

16477

“Get up and go to the street called Straight,” the Lord said to him, “to the house of Judas, and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, since he is praying there.

16478

In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them. Not a single person could withstand them; terror of them fell on every nationality.

16480

After singing psalms, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

16481

Chenaniah, the leader of the Levites in music, was to direct the music because he was skillful.

16482

For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe what is false,

16483

They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against Me. If you worship their gods, it will be a snare for you.”

16484

So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

16485

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

16486

You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

16487

He sent messengers ahead of Him, and on the way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make preparations for Him.

16488

Raise another army for yourself like the army you lost—horse for horse, chariot for chariot—and let’s fight with them on the plain; and we will certainly be stronger than they will be.” The king listened to them and did so.

16493

I will set up camp at My house against an army,
against those who march back and forth,
and no oppressor will march against them again,
for now I have seen with My own eyes.

16494

And they no longer dared to ask Him anything.

16495

Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

16496

Then they all cried out together, “Take this man away! Release Barabbas to us!”

16497

The Lord said, “I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

16499

He would speak the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand.

16501

Even after my skin has been destroyed,
yet I will see God in my flesh.

16502

He answered me: “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity. For they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land; He does not see.’

16504

When Jesus had finished saying all this, He told His disciples,

16505

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

16506

You saw the oppression of our ancestors in Egypt
and heard their cry at the Red Sea.

16507

These are the last words of David:

The declaration of David son of Jesse,
the declaration of the man raised on high,
the one anointed by the God of Jacob,
the favorite singer of Israel:

16508

So He departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and He remained there.

16509

He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived.

16510

And tell the Israelites: Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;

16511

Then Moses led Israel on from the Red Sea, and they went out to the Wilderness of Shur. They journeyed for three days in the wilderness without finding water.

16512

Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?
Who may stand in His holy place?

16513

Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

16515

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

16516

“You are to make an altar for the burning of incense; make it of acacia wood.

16517

A psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.It is good to praise Yahweh,
to sing praise to Your name, Most High,

16518

“Teacher,” they asked Him, “so when will these things be? And what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?”

16519

When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

16520

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you destroyer of Israel?”

16521

Long ago You established the earth,
and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

16522

But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.

16523

I assure you: All these things will come on this generation!

16525

and do not set up a sacred pillar; the Lord your God hates them.

16527

I will remove the blood from their mouths
and the detestable things
from between their teeth.
Then they too will become a remnant for our God;
they will become like a clan in Judah
and Ekron like the Jebusites.

16528

When shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem just before the Sabbath, I gave orders that the gates be closed and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my men at the gates, so that no goods could enter during the Sabbath day.

16529

As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians coming after them. Then the Israelites were terrified and cried out to the Lord for help.

16530

For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

16531

Then the Lord said, “Should I hide what I am about to do from Abraham?

16532

The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests living in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

16533

“Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.

“You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

16536

All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

16537

David reviewed his troops and appointed commanders of hundreds and of thousands over them.

16538

For I will then restore
pure speech to the peoples
so that all of them may call
on the name of Yahweh
and serve Him with a single purpose.

16539

From one of them a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.

16540

the man who raped her must give the young woman’s father 50 silver shekels, and she must become his wife because he violated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

16542

He did not let anyone accompany Him except Peter, James, and John, James’s brother.

16543

“As for Me, My covenant is with you: you will become the father of many nations.

16544

“No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may enter the Lord’s assembly.

16545

Turning to the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she, with her tears, has washed My feet and wiped them with her hair.

16546

Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

16547

But they both lie in the dust,
and worms cover them.

16548

“But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored in the presence of all the other guests.

16549

It was reported to David: “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and raiding the threshing floors.”

16550

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

16551

They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance to the tomb for us?”

16553

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations:

16554

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

16555

Then Jesus answered him, “What do you want Me to do for you?”

“Rabbouni,” the blind man told Him, “I want to see!”

16556

From there Abraham traveled to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived in Gerar,

16558

They have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are overturning the faith of some.

16559

Ephraim’s watchman is with my God.
The prophet encounters a fowler’s snare
on all his ways.
Hostility is in the house of his God!

16560

But she gave birth to a Son—a male who is going to shepherd all nations with an iron scepter—and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

16563

and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:

He will give His angels orders concerning you,
and they will support you with their hands
so that you will not strike
your foot against a stone.

16564

You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride.
You have captured my heart with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.

16565

Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and One like the Son of Man was seated on the cloud, with a gold crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

16566

After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and when he broke it, he began to eat.

16567

If a thief is caught in the act of breaking in, and he is beaten to death, no one is guilty of bloodshed.

16568

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You may even be found fighting against God.” So they were persuaded by him.

16569

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
but to Your name give glory
because of Your faithful love, because of Your truth.

16570

And she conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.

16573

For God has put everything under His feet. But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception.

16575

When Jesus saw large crowds around Him, He gave the order to go to the other side of the sea.

16576

so that this generation may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world

16577

This is what Joshua did to them: he delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill them.

16578

The person who speaks in another language builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the church.

16580

I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!”

16582

who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

16583

The Lord said to Moses,

16584

I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other will be left.

16586

“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

16587

When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

16588

The Lord said to Moses: “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives,

16590

An end has come; the end has come!
It has awakened against you.
Look, it is coming!

16591

When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”
God will save the humble.

16593

“When a woman has a discharge, and it consists of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her menstruation for seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

16594

When it was already late, His disciples approached Him and said, “This place is a wilderness, and it is already late!

16595

for according to the last words of David, the Levites 20 years old or more were to be counted—

16597

I will break down the gates of Damascus.
I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven,
and the one who wields the scepter from Beth-eden.
The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir.
The Lord has spoken.

16598

I confirm My covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

16600

But even the hairs of your head have all been counted.

16602

“You know the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected me to be king, but then the kingship was turned over to my brother, for the Lord gave it to him.

16603

He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat some of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

16605

But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the Angel of the Lord took His stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

16606

Then Yahweh’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench.

16607

So then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?

16608

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?

16609

And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test Him:

16610

Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot,
who also betrayed Him.

16611

“You are to make a lampstand out of pure, hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its calyxes and petals.

16613

When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex and began to teach.

16614

Then Jeshurun became fat and rebelled—
you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

16617

“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see’—your sin remains.

16618

When He told them, “I am He,” they stepped back and fell to the ground.

16619

Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them,
and the new wine will fail them.

16620

Peter, along with John, looked at him intently and said, “Look at us.”

16621

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple complex, where all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

16622

“As for me, I am going the way of all of the earth. Be strong and be courageous like a man,

16624

Adoram was in charge of forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was court historian;

16626

That very hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem. They found the Eleven and those with them gathered together,

16627

The Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, who traveled through Gilead and Manasseh, and then through Mizpah of Gilead. He crossed over to the Ammonites from Mizpah of Gilead.

16628

The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those who live on the earth became drunk on the wine of her sexual immorality.”

16629

Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly tormented by a demon.”

16631

He called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

16632

Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

16633

“If the contamination reappears in the house after the stones have been pulled out, and after the house has been scraped and replastered,

16634

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don’t recline at the best place, because a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by your host.

16635

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, “Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!”

16637

Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

16638

Then the scribes and the chief priests looked for a way to get their hands on Him that very hour, because they knew He had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

16639

They were astonished at His teaching because His message had authority.

16640

“If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.

16643

because He has looked with favor
on the humble condition of His slave.
Surely, from now on all generations
will call me blessed,

16644

For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.

16645

A Davidic psalm.Ascribe to Yahweh, you heavenly beings,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

16648

Then the king of Israel and Judah’s King Jehoshaphat went up to Ramoth-gilead.

16649

So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

16650

He has put His trust in God; let God rescue Him now—if He wants Him! For He said, ‘I am God’s Son.’”

16653

And He said to them, “It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer. But you are making it a den of thieves!”

16654

They wore old, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies. Their entire provision of bread was dry and crumbly.

16655

Moses replied to them, “Wait here until I hear what the Lord commands for you.”

16656

and lusted after their lovers, whose sexual members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

16657

By Myself I have sworn;
Truth has gone from My mouth,
a word that will not be revoked:
Every knee will bow to Me,
every tongue will swear allegiance.

16658

Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades
or loosen the belt of Orion?

16659

and said to him, “We are unclean because of a human corpse. Why should we be excluded from presenting the Lord’s offering at its appointed time with the other Israelites?”

16660

I proclaimed a fast by the Ahava River, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us, our children, and all our possessions.

16661

The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

16662

But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and of what I will reveal to you.

16663

He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts. But it was not like that from the beginning.

16664

While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord God! Are You going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

16665

The Lord spoke to Moses:

16666

Have you not heard?
I designed it long ago;
I planned it in days gone by.
I have now brought it to pass,
and you have crushed fortified cities
into piles of rubble.

16667

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the sanctuary, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by his oath.’

16668

For Herod had arrested John, chained him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

16670

When the Israelites cried out to Him because of Midian,

16671

From ancient times no one has heard,
no one has listened,
no eye has seen any God except You,
who acts on behalf of the one who waits for Him.

16672

The Lord handed Jehoiakim king of Judah over to him, along with some of the vessels from the house of God. Nebuchadnezzar carried them to the land of Babylon, to the house of his god, and put the vessels in the treasury of his god.

16673

Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

16675

Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

16679

All kinds of trees providing food will grow along both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fresh fruit because the water comes from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for medicine.”

16680

Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

16682

He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the Lord.

16683

He will lift up a banner for the nations
and gather the dispersed of Israel;
He will collect the scattered of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.

16684

In the same way, after supper He also took the cup and said, “This cup is the new covenant established by My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

16685

I am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water will come out of it and the people will drink.” Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

16686

Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.

16687

Then they came to Elim, where there were 12 springs of water and 70 date palms, and they camped there by the waters.

16688

BOOK IV
(Psalms 90–106)
A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, You have been our refuge
in every generation.

16690

They will not pour out
their wine offerings to the Lord,
and their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
all who eat it become defiled.
For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
it will not enter the house of the Lord.

16691

Are they servants of Christ?
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death many times.

16692

Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

16693

If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,

16694

A wicked man secretly takes a bribe
to subvert the course of justice.

16695

When you returned, you wept before the Lord, but He didn’t listen to your requests or pay attention to you.

16696

When they came to Jesus, they did not break His legs since they saw that He was already dead.

16697

I belong to my love,
and his desire is for me.

16698

And the Lord said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;
two people will come from you and be separated.
One people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.

16699

“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? I will not bring the disaster during his lifetime, because he has humbled himself before Me. I will bring the disaster on his house during his son’s lifetime.”

16700

Then He replied to them, “Don’t you see all these things? I assure you: Not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down!”

16701

The Angel of the Lord asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you, because what you are doing is evil in My sight.

16702

Now I am coming to You,
and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have My joy completed in them.

16703

All the crowds that had gathered for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, went home, striking their chests.

16704

The 12 gates are 12 pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The broad street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

16705

Look at the nations and observe
be utterly astounded!
For something is taking place in your days
that you will not believe
when you hear about it.

16706

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

16707

Whoever is among His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem.

16709

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. The message was true and was about a great conflict. He understood the message and had understanding of the vision.

16710

Can you hunt prey for a lioness
or satisfy the appetite of young lions

16711

So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

16712

But a Samaritan on his journey came up to him, and when he saw the man, he had compassion.

16713

When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”

16716

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

16717

Now those who were with me saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of the One who was speaking to me.

16718

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.May God be gracious to us and bless us;
look on us with favorSelah

16720

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

16721

and Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the Lord is sending me on to Bethel.”

But Elisha replied, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

16722

So God blessed them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

16723

Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:

You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.

16724

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, day or night. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.”

16725

Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him and struck him down in Samaria at the citadel of the king’s palace —as well as Argob and Arieh. There were 50 Gileadite men with Pekah. He killed Pekahiah and became king in his place.

16726

The Lord came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name Yahweh.

16727

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

16730

When Jesus had finished this sermon, the crowds were astonished at His teaching,

16732

And about the angels He says:

He makes His angels winds,
and His servants a fiery flame,

16733

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party got up and argued vehemently: “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

16736

Since the groom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

16737

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

16739

The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

16740

For we also have received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith

16741

In the whole land—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
two-thirds will be cut off and die,
but a third will be left in it.

16742

The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable—
how much more so
when he brings it with ulterior motives!

16743

But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”

16744

The Lord spoke to Moses,

16745

The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

16746

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

16748

At that very moment, she came up and began to thank God and to speak about Him to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.

16750

But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.

16751

This will be the plague the Lord strikes all the peoples with, who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

16759

Moses said, “This is what the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.”

16760

Then I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and against His army.

16761

While he was sitting on the judge’s bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I’ve suffered terribly in a dream because of Him!”

16762

and being of the same occupation, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

16763

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken.

16767

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Judah by their clans.

16768

The Israelites, however, were unfaithful regarding the things set apart for destruction. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart, and the Lord’s anger burned against the Israelites.

16769

But they shouted, “Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

16771

Should I not punish them for these things?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?

16772

Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to set sail from there, hoping somehow to reach Phoenix, a harbor on Crete open to the southwest and northwest, and to winter there.

16775

The priest must sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he will slaughter the burnt offering.

16776

Wake up, wake up!
Put on the strength of the Lord’s power.
Wake up as in days past,
as in generations of long ago.
Wasn’t it You who hacked Rahab to pieces,
who pierced the sea monster?

16777

Then He told them: “Nation will be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

16778

Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the Lord came down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

16779

“Son of man, turn your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him

16780

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time, and Peter remembered when Jesus had spoken the word to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” When he thought about it, he began to weep.

16781

It is a sign forever between Me and the Israelites, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”

16782

does not act improperly,
is not selfish, is not provoked,
and does not keep a record of wrongs.

16783

The Lord then said to Moses, “Write this down on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven.”

16784

A generous person will be enriched,
and the one who gives a drink of water
will receive water.

16785

but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a presentation offering before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

16787

“At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and store it within your gates.

16788

The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look—something greater than Solomon is here!

16789

A figure stood there,
but I could not recognize its appearance;
a form loomed before my eyes.
I heard a quiet voice:

16790

As soon as she heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

16791

Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

16792

So all the generations from Abraham to David were 14 generations; and from David until the exile to Babylon, 14 generations; and from the exile to Babylon until the Messiah, 14 generations.

16795

Listen! The Lord will impoverish her
and cast her wealth into the sea;
she herself will be consumed by fire.

16797

When the foundations are destroyed,
what can the righteous do?”

16798

“If you come across your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

16800

He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a great amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, provoking Him.

16802

As it is written:
Because of You
we are being put to death all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

16803

The Lord answered Job:

16804

From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

16806

Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.

16807

So, departing quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to tell His disciples the news.

16808

tell them: This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.

16810

For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been His counselor?

16811

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

16813

After the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was a voice, a soft whisper.

16814

The mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have briefly written above.

16815

“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”

16816

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to gather the plunder. They found among them an abundance of goods on the bodies and valuable items. So they stripped them until nobody could carry any more. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

16818

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud had died.

16819

“Speak to the Levites and tell them: When you receive from the Israelites the tenth that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the Lord—a tenth of the tenth.

16820

From there David went up and stayed in the strongholds of En-gedi.

16821

For the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

16823

You have revealed the paths of life to me;
You will fill me with gladness
in Your presence.

16824

Then the seventh poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the sanctuary from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

16825

The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.

16826

So if you have not been faithful with the unrighteous money, who will trust you with what is genuine?

16828

Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

16829

Even in your law it is written that the witness of two men is valid.

16831

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

16833

“In the middle of the night there was a shout: ‘Here’s the groom! Come out to meet him.’

16834

But I tell you, from this moment I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way in My Father’s kingdom with you.”

16836

And He came again and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open. They did not know what to say to Him.

16837

If only I had someone to hear my case!
Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me.
Let my Opponent compose His indictment.

16838

“They are to make an ark of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

16839

You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was perfected.

16840

When Jesus saw that he answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any longer.

16842

No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to participate with demons!

16843

When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter besides her.

16844

Now they know that all things
You have given to Me are from You,

16846

“For this is what the Lord God says: See, I Myself will search for My flock and look for them.

16848

So they went away in the boat by themselves to a remote place,

16849

While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, perverted men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him!”

16852

What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the 99 on the hillside and go and search for the stray?

16853

Just as many were appalled at You
His appearance was so disfigured
that He did not look like a man,
and His form did not resemble a human being—

16854

Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the path with a drawn sword in His hand. Balaam knelt and bowed with his face to the ground.

16855

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the leaders of Judah:
because out of you will come a leader
who will shepherd My people Israel.

16856

Let the unrighteous go on in unrighteousness; let the filthy go on being made filthy; let the righteous go on in righteousness; and let the holy go on being made holy.”

16858

Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.

16859

Joshua was now old, getting on in years, and the Lord said to him, “You have become old, getting on in years, but a great deal of the land remains to be possessed.

16860

“Let these words sink in: The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.”

16861

So I will put an end to your indecency and sexual immorality, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not look longingly at them or remember Egypt anymore.

16862

He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts,
so that they would not see with their eyes
or understand with their hearts,
and be converted,
and I would heal them.

16864

I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of cascading waters and like the rumbling of loud thunder. The sound I heard was also like harpists playing on their harps.

16865

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron,

16866

You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.
You seized me and prevailed.
I am a laughingstock all the time;
everyone ridicules me.

16868

The Lord spoke to Moses:

16869

Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in His hands?
Who has bound up the waters in a cloak?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is His name,
and what is the name of His Son—
if you know?

16870

Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

16872

but in the days of the sound of the seventh angel, when he will blow his trumpet, then God’s hidden plan will be completed, as He announced to His servants the prophets.”

16873

“Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed.

16874

“Listen,” He said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.

16875

Then He said to Moses, “Go up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel’s elders, and bow in worship at a distance.

16876

“Say to the Israelites: Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the country are to stone him.

16878

Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

16879

He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your fathers that He swore to them by oath, because the Lord your God is a compassionate God.

16880

For I have kept the ways of the Lord
and have not turned from my God to wickedness.

16882

Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.

16883

They replied to him, “Your servants have come from a far away land because of the reputation of the Lord your God. For we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt,

16885

He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his family were baptized.

16886

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.”

16887

And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He didn’t answer.

16890

Is anything impossible for the Lord? At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.”

16891

The heavens will expose his iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against him.

16893

They sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, but no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

16895

While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God—

16896

And I say this: The law, which came 430 years later, does not revoke a covenant that was previously ratified by God and cancel the promise.

16897

Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.

16898

Only Luke is with me. Bring Mark with you, for he is useful to me in the ministry.

16900

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up, hit Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the spirit from the Lord leave me to speak to you?”

16903

including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

16904

But to Israel he says: All day long I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and defiant people.

16905

The great Day of the Lord is near,
near and rapidly approaching.
Listen, the Day of the Lord
then the warrior’s cry is bitter.

16907

The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.

16908

They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

16910

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

16912

“Therefore, don’t be afraid of them, since there is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered and nothing hidden that won’t be made known.

16914

For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:

I raised you up for this reason
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

16915

telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

16916

“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Him, “Lord, he’s already decaying. It’s been four days.”

16917

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

16918

Then He said to them, “Why are you fearful? Do you still have no faith?”

16919

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” This is the Lord’s declaration.

16920

All the fugitives among his troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every direction of the wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

16922

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

16924

When our days there were over, we left to continue our journey, while all of them, with their wives and children, escorted us out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach to pray,

16925

Eat it within your gates; both the unclean person and the clean may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or deer.

16926

If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned up.

16927

Do the same with your cattle and your flock. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.

16928

After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

16929

Let whoever is wise understand these things,
and whoever is insightful recognize them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.

16930

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

16931

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

16932

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

16933

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.

16934

These men went on ahead and waited for us in Troas,

16935

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

16936

So the king sent messengers, and they gathered all the elders of Jerusalem and Judah to him.

16937

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.

16938

Now the believers from there had heard the news about us and had come to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

16939

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

16940

All the earth is calm and at rest;
people shout with a ringing cry.

16941

“then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!

16942

“This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Pay attention! Disaster spreads
from nation to nation.
A great storm is stirred up
from the ends of the earth.”

16943

For they heard them speaking in other languages and declaring the greatness of God.

Then Peter responded,

16944

And they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping His face.

16945

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

16948

This is what the Lord says—
who makes a way in the sea,
and a path through surging waters,

16949

They stripped Him and dressed Him in a scarlet military robe.

16950

This man will be like a wild donkey.
His hand will be against everyone,
and everyone’s hand will be against him;
he will live at odds with all his brothers.

16952

“This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

16953

King Agrippa, while on the road at midday, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.

16955

for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

16956

In the fortress of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men,

16957

She who has believed is blessed because what was spoken to her by the Lord will be fulfilled!”

16958

you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

16961

that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

16962

When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even quieter.

16964

She saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet, where Jesus’ body had been lying.

16965

He was taken away because of oppression and judgment;
and who considered His fate?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.

16967

So King Solomon sent for him, and they took him down from the altar. He came and paid homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your home.”

16968

In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in Yahweh your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

16969

As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.

16971

Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

16972

You did not delight
in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.

16973

This will be the sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in cloth and lying in a feeding trough.”

16974

If the God we serve exists, then He can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and He can rescue us from the power of you, the king.

16975

So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,

16976

Now I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super-apostles.”

16977

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says:

I am about to refine them and test them,
for what else can I do
because of My dear people?

16979

Since many were going without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “You men should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete and sustain this damage and loss.

16980

A man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with his sack full of 20 loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”

16984

The Lord spoke to Moses:

16985

What will you do on a festival day,
on the day of the Lord’s feast?

16986

So he prepared a banquet for them, and they ate and drank.

16987

Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Lord’s Wars:

Waheb in Suphah
and the ravines of the Arnon,

16988

In all the synagogues I often tried to make them blaspheme by punishing them. I even pursued them to foreign cities since I was greatly enraged at them.

16989

For this reason I’ve asked to see you and speak to you. In fact, it is for the hope of Israel that I’m wearing this chain.”

16991

So we found some disciples and stayed there seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.

16992

So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”

And the woman said, “It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate.”

16993

Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

16994

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”

“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

16996

So she laughed to herself: “After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?”

16997

Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

16998

The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay.

16999

Heleb son of Baanah the Netophahite,
Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjaminites,

17000

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

17001

an ox and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the Lord; and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the Lord is going to appear to you.”

17003

because the words that You gave Me,
I have given them.
They have received them
and have known for certain
that I came from You.
They have believed that You sent Me.