Never Alone

Sharing Your Faith in the Workplace

Simon Peter's Journey: 'Grace in Failure' (Part 1)

Who Am I, Really? Discovering the You God Had in Mind

Gospel-Based Conversations to Have With Your Preteen

Everyday Prayers for Christmas

Positive and Encouraging Thoughts for Women: A 5-Day Devotional From K-LOVE

The Bible in a Month

Reimagine Influence Through the Life of Lydia

The Holy Spirit: God Among Us

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

New International Version™  (Anglicised), Audio Edition

Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkGEN">
      <div class="chapter ch29" data-usfm="GEN.29">
         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well&#8217;s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jacob asked the shepherds, &#8220;My brothers, where are you from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="content">&#8220;We&#8217;re from Harran,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Do you know Laban, Nahor&#8217;s grandson?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we know him,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Jacob asked them, &#8220;Is he well?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, he is,&#8221; they said, &#8220;and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; he said, &#8220;the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;We can&#8217;t,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father&#8217;s sheep, for she was a shepherd. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban&#8217;s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle&#8217;s sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister&#8217;s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Laban said to him, &#8220;You are my own flesh and blood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.29.14"><span class="content">After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Laban said to him, &#8220;Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Leah had weak</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">delicate</span></span></span><span class="content"> eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Laban said, &#8220;It&#8217;s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn&#8217;t I? Why have you deceived me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.29.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.29.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Laban replied, &#8220;It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.29.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Finish this daughter&#8217;s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.29.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.29.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.29.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.29.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob&#8217;s Children</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.29.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.29.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.29.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:32 </span><span class="fq">Reuben </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">he </span><span class="fq">has seen my misery</span><span class="ft">; the name means </span><span class="fqa">see, a son.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for she said, &#8220;It is because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.29.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.29.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.&#8221; So she named him Simeon.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:33 </span><span class="fq">Simeon </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">one who hears.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.29.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.29.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.&#8221; So he was named Levi.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:34 </span><span class="fq">Levi </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">attached</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.29.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.29.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;This time I will praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; So she named him Judah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:35 </span><span class="fq">Judah </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">praise</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Then she stopped having children.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkJOB">
      <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="JOB.15">
         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Would a wise person answer with empty notions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">or fill their belly with the hot east wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Would they argue with useless words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">with speeches that have no value?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But you even undermine piety</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">and hinder devotion to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your sin prompts your mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">you adopt the tongue of the crafty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">your own lips testify against you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you the first man ever born?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">Were you brought forth before the hills?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do you listen in on God&#8217;s council?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What do you know that we do not know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">What insights do you have that we do not have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">men even older than your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Are God&#8217;s consolations not enough for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">words spoken gently to you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why has your heart carried you away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">and why do your eyes flash,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">so that you vent your rage against God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">and pour out such words from your mouth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;What are mortals, that they could be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If God places no trust in his holy ones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">who drink up evil like water!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me and I will explain to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">let me tell you what I have seen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">what the wise have declared,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">hiding nothing received from their ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">(to whom alone the land was given</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">when no foreigners moved among them):</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All his days the wicked man suffers torment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Terrifying sounds fill his ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">when all seems well, marauders attack him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">he is marked for the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He wanders about for food like a vulture;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">he knows the day of darkness is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Distress and anguish fill him with terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">because he shakes his fist at God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">and vaunts himself against the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">defiantly charging against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">with a thick, strong shield.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though his face is covered with fat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">and his waist bulges with flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">he will inhabit ruined towns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">and houses where no one lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">houses crumbling to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">nor will his possessions spread over the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will not escape the darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">a flame will wither his shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">and the breath of God&#8217;s mouth will carry him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">for he will get nothing in return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Before his time he will wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">and his branches will not flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For the company of the godless will be barren,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="content">their womb fashions deceit.&#8221;</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMAT">
      <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="MAT.20">
         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He agreed to pay them a denarius</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:2 </span><span class="ft">A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for the day and sent them into his vineyard.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He told them, &#8216;You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they went.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.20.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, &#8216;Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Because no one has hired us,&#8217; they answered.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.20.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He said to them, &#8216;You also go and work in my vineyard.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, &#8216;Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;These who were hired last worked only one hour,&#8217; they said, &#8216;and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he answered one of them, &#8216;I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn&#8217;t you agree to work for a denarius?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Don&#8217;t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So the last will be first, and the first will be last.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Mother&#8217;s Request</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then the mother of Zebedee&#8217;s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What is it you want?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.20.21"><span class="content">She said, &#8220;Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you are asking,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said to them. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.20.22"><span class="content">&#8220;We can,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jesus called them together and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and whoever wants to be first must be your slave&#8212;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Two Blind Men Receive Sight</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, &#8220;Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.20.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.20.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, &#8220;Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.20.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.20.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Jesus stopped and called them. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want me to do for you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.20.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.20.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;we want our sight.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.20.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.20.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

New International Version

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkROM">
      <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="ROM.14.13+ROM.14.14+ROM.14.15+ROM.14.16+ROM.14.17+ROM.14.18+ROM.14.19+ROM.14.20+ROM.14.21+ROM.14.22+ROM.14.23">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:23 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts place 16:25-27 here; others after 15:33.</span></span></span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

IHCC Daily Bible Reading Plan - JanuarySample

Scripture

About this Plan

Related plans