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January 21 - Bible-in-a-Year
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Genesis 27:46-28:22
Chapter 27
46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am tired of (F1)living because of (C1)the daughters of Heth; (C2)if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"
Chapter 28
Jacob Is Sent Away
1 So Isaac called Jacob and (C1)blessed him and commanded him, (F1)saying to him, "(C2)You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.2 "Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of (C1)Bethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.3 "May (F1)(C1)God Almighty (C2)bless you and (C3)make you fruitful and (C4)multiply you, so that you may become a (C5)multitude of peoples.4 "May He also give you the (C1)blessing of Abraham, to you and to your (F1)descendants with you, so that you may (C2)possess the land where you (C3)live as a stranger, which God gave to Abraham."5 Then (C1)Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, "(C1)You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.8 So Esau saw that (C1)the daughters of Canaan displeased (F1)his father Isaac;9 and Esau went to Ishmael, and (F1)married, (C1)besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
Jacob's Dream
10 Then Jacob departed from (C1)Beersheba and went toward (C2)Haran.11 And he (F1)happened upon a (F2)(C1)particular place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and made it a support for his head, and lay down in that place.12 And (C1)he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, (C2)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.13 Then behold, (C1)the LORD was standing (F1)above it and said, "I am the LORD, (C2)the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give (C3)to you and to (C4)your (F2)descendants.14 "Your (F1)descendants will also be like (C1)the dust of the earth, and you will (F2)spread out (C2)to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and (C3)in you and in your (F1)descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.15 "Behold, (C1)I am with you and (C2)will keep you wherever you go, and (C3)will bring you back to this land; for (C4)I will not leave you until I have done what I have (F1)promised you."16 Then Jacob (C1)awoke from his sleep and said, "(C2)The LORD is certainly in this place, and I did not know it!"17 And he was afraid and said, "(C1)How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"
18 So Jacob got up early in the morning, and took (C1)the stone that he had placed as a support for his head, and set it up as a memorial stone, and poured oil on its top.19 Then he named that place (F1)(C1)Bethel; but (F2)previously the name of the city had been (C2)Luz.20 Jacob also (C1)made a vow, saying, "(C2)If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I (F1)take, and give me (F2)(C3)food to eat and garments to wear,21 and (C1)I return to my father's house in (F1)safety, (C2)then the LORD will be my God.22 "And this stone, which I have set up as a memorial stone, (C1)will be God's house, and (C2)of everything that You give me I will assuredly give a tenth to You."
Psalms 21
Chapter 21
Praise for Salvation.
1 LORD, in Your strength the king will (C1)be glad,
And in Your (F1)salvation how greatly he will rejoice!
2 You have (C1)given him his heart's desire,
And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
3 For You (C1)meet him with the blessings of good things;
You set a (C2)crown of pure gold on his head.
4 He asked for life from You,
You (C1)gave it to him,
(C2)Length of days forever and ever.
5 His (C1)glory is great through Your (F1)salvation,
(C2)Splendor and majesty You place upon him.
6 For You make him (F1)most (C1)blessed forever;
You make him joyful (C2)with the joy of Your presence.
7 For the king (C1)trusts in the LORD,
And through the faithfulness of the Most High (C2)he will not be shaken.
8 Your hand will (C1)find all your enemies;
Your right hand will find those who hate you.
9 You will make them (C1)as a fiery oven in the time (F1)of your anger;
The LORD will (C2)swallow them up in His wrath,
And (C3)fire will devour them.
10 You will eliminate their (F1)descendants from the earth,
And their (F2)(C1)children from among the sons of mankind.
11 Though they (F1)(C1)intended evil against You
And (C2)devised a plot,
They will not succeed.
12 For You will (C1)make them turn their back;
You will take aim at their faces (C2)with Your bowstrings.
13 Be exalted, LORD, in Your strength;
We will (C1)sing and praise Your power.
Luke 16
Chapter 16
The Unrighteous Manager
1 Now He was also saying to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was (F1)reported to him as (C1)squandering his possessions.2 "And he summoned him and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'3 "And the manager said to himself, 'What am I to do, since my (F1)master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to (F2)dig; I am ashamed to beg.4 'I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.'5 "And he summoned each one of his (F1)master's debtors, and he began saying to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'6 "And he said, 'A hundred (F1)jugs of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'7 "Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred (F1)kors of wheat.' He (*)said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'8 "And his (F1)master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of (C1)this age are more shrewd in relation to their own (F2)kind than the (C2)sons of light.9 "And I say to you, (C1)make friends for yourselves by means of the (F1)(C2)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it (F2)is all gone, (C3)they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
10 "(C1)The one who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much; and the one who is unrighteous in a very little thing is also unrighteous in much.11 "Therefore if you have not (F1)been faithful in the use of unrighteous (F2)(C1)wealth, who will entrust the true wealth to you?12 "And if you have not (F1)been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?13 "(C1)No (F1)servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and (F2)(C2)wealth."
14 Now the Pharisees, who were (C1)lovers of money, were listening to all these things and (C2)were (F1)ridiculing Him.15 And He said to them, "You are the ones who (C1)justify yourselves in the sight of people, but (C2)God knows your hearts; because that which is highly esteemed among people is detestable in the sight of God.
16 "(C1)The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John came; since that time (C2)the gospel of the kingdom of God (F1)has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.17 "(C1)But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one (F1)stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.
18 "(C1)Everyone who (F1)divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is (F2)divorced from a husband commits adultery.
The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself in splendor every day.20 "And a poor man named Lazarus (C1)was laid at his gate, covered with sores,21 and longing to be fed from the scraps which fell from the rich man's table; not only that, the dogs also were coming and licking his sores.22 "Now it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to (F1)(C1)Abraham's arms; and the rich man also died and was buried.23 "And in (C1)Hades he raised his eyes, being in torment, and (*)saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his (F1)arms.24 "And he cried out and said, '(C1)Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in (C2)this flame.'25 "But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that (C1)during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.26 'And (F1)besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who want to go over from here to you will not be able, nor will any people cross over from there to us.'27 "And he said, 'Then I request of you, father, that you send him to my father's house—28 for I have five brothers—in order that he may (C1)warn them, so that they will not come to this place of torment as well.'29 "But Abraham (*)said, 'They have (F1)(C1)Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.'30 "But he said, 'No, (C1)father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!'31 "But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'"
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