Bible In A Year

¹> Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

²Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever you had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

³You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

⁴For a thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, As a watch in the night.

⁵You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

⁶In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

⁷For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

⁸You have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the light of your presence.

⁹For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

¹⁰The days of our years are seventy, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, For it passes quickly, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knows the power of your anger, Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

¹²So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

¹³Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, For as many years as we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let your work appear to your servants; Your glory to their children.

¹⁷Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; Establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.

¹It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. ²Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. ³Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?" ⁴He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' ⁶So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart." ⁷They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?" ⁸He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. ⁹I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery." ¹⁰His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry." ¹¹But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. ¹²For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it." ¹³Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come to me; for to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven." ¹⁵He laid his hands on them, and departed from there. ¹⁶Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" ¹⁷He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." ¹⁸He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.' ¹⁹'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" ²⁰The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?" ²¹Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." ²²But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions. ²³Jesus said to his disciples, "Most assuredly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. ²⁴Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." ²⁵When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?" ²⁶Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." ²⁷Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?" ²⁸Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. ³⁰But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.

¹"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ²When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius{A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.} a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³He went out about the third hour,{Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 AM.} and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. ⁴To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way. ⁵Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,{noon and 3:00 P. M.} and did likewise. ⁶About the eleventh hour{5:00 PM} he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?' ⁷"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.' ⁸When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.' ⁹"When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. ¹⁰When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius. ¹¹When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, ¹²saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!' ¹³"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. ¹⁵Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?' ¹⁶So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen." ¹⁷As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, ¹⁸"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, ¹⁹and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up." ²⁰Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. ²¹He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom." ²²But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able." ²³He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father." ²⁴When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers. ²⁵But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ²⁶It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be{TR reads "let him be" instead of "shall be"} your servant. ²⁷Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, ²⁸even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." ²⁹As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. ³⁰Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!" ³¹The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!" ³²Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³³They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened." ³⁴Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.