Bible for Children 30 Day

Win Your Child’s Heart

That Makes Sense: A Gentle Reflection on the Origins of Addiction, How to Understand It, and How to Offer Yourself Grace

The Revelation of Jesus

Shining the Light on Mental Health - Film + Faith

Five Miracles of the Bible

Refocus

Journey Through Isaiah & Micah

Temptation's 3 Stages: Where Most Christians Give Up

The Path: What if the Way of Jesus Is Different Than You Thought?

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Again he asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What shall I compare the kingdom of God to?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:21 </span><span class="ft">Or about 27 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of flour until it worked all through the dough.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Narrow Door</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Someone asked him, &#8220;Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.13.23"><span class="content">He said to them, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, &#8216;Sir, open the door for us.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he will answer, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know you or where you come from.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then you will say, &#8216;We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he will reply, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus&#8217; Sorrow for Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.13.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, &#8220;Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go tell that fox, &#8216;I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day&#8212;for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, &#8216;Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:35 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:26</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

New International Version™  (Anglicised), Audio Edition

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

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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 17</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my plea is just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">listen to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">Hear my prayer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">it does not rise from deceitful lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let my vindication come from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">may your eyes see what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though you probe my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">though you examine me at night and test me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">you will find that I have planned no evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">my mouth has not transgressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though people tried to bribe me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">through what your lips have commanded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My steps have held to your paths;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">my feet have not stumbled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Show me the wonders of your great love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">you who save by your right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">those who take refuge in you from their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep me as the apple of your eye;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">hide me in the shadow of your wings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">from the wicked who are out to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">from my mortal enemies who surround me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They close up their callous hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">and their mouths speak with arrogance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They have tracked me down, they now surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They are like a lion hungry for prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">like a fierce lion crouching in cover.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Rise up, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, confront them, bring them down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">with your sword rescue me from the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By your hand save me from such people, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">from those of this world whose reward is in this life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">may their children gorge themselves on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">and may there be leftovers for their little ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="content">when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.</span></span></div>
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