Study Desk

Then you will learn why I am giving you this command. I am telling you these things so that my agreement with Levi will continue." This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.

"You don't live the way I told you. You have not accepted my teachings. So I will cause people to hate you and think you are worth nothing."

We all have the same father. The same God made every one of us. So why do people cheat one another? They show that they don't respect the agreement. They don't respect the agreement that our ancestors made with God.

God wants husbands and wives to become one body and one spirit. Why? So that they would have holy children and protect that spiritual unity. Don't cheat on your wife. She has been your wife from the time you were young.

The Lord , the God of Israel, says, "I hate divorce, and I hate the cruel things that men do. So protect your spiritual unity. Don't cheat on your wife."

In this way your whole nation has stolen things from me, so bad things are happening to you."

So there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David. There were also fourteen generations from David until the people were taken away to Babylon. And there were fourteen more from the time the people were taken to Babylon until the Messiah was born.

Mary's husband, Joseph, was a good man. He did not want to cause her public disgrace, so he planned to divorce her secretly.

But God warned the wise men in a dream not to go back to Herod. So they went home to their own country a different way.

So Joseph got ready and left for Egypt with the child and the mother. They left during the night.

Herod saw that the wise men had fooled him, and he was very angry. So he gave an order to kill all the baby boys in Bethlehem and the whole area around Bethlehem. Herod had learned from the wise men the time the baby was born. It was now two years from that time. So he said to kill all the boys who were two years old and younger.

So Joseph took the child and the mother and went to Israel.

But he heard that Archelaus was now king in Judea. Archelaus became king when his father Herod died. So Joseph was afraid to go there. Then, after being warned in a dream, he went away to the area of Galilee.

So Jesus was baptized. As soon as he came up out of the water, the sky opened, and he saw God's Spirit coming down on him like a dove.

He said to Jesus, "If you are the Son of God, jump off, because the Scriptures say, ‘God will command his angels to help you, and their hands will catch you, so that you will not hit your foot on a rock.'"

So the devil left him. Then some angels came to Jesus and helped him.

Jesus heard that John was put in prison, so he went back to Galilee.

So they immediately left the boat and their father, and they followed Jesus.

In the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.

"So, what if you are offering your gift at the altar and remember that someone has something against you?