Today’s
Reading : Deuteronomy 31 – 32 and John 20
(KJV)
Deuteronomy 31
Deu 31:1 And Moses went and spoke these words unto all
Israel.
Deu 31:2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can
no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deu 31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before
thee, and he will destroy these nations
from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the
LORD hath said.
Deu 31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the
Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
Deu 31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your
face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have
commanded you.
Deu 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not,
nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it
is that doth go with thee; he will not
fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Deu 31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto
him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must
go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers
to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit
it.
Deu 31:8 And the LORD, he it
is that doth go before thee; he will be
with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be
dismayed.
Deu 31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it
unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bore the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
Deu 31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end
of every seven years, in the solemnity
of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Deu 31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the
LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt
read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Deu 31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women,
and children, and thy stranger that is
within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the
LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
Deu 31:13 And that
their children, which have not known any
thing, may hear, and learn to fear the
LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to
possess it.
Deu 31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy
days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the
tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and
Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Deu 31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a
pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the
tabernacle.
Deu 31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up,
and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be
among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with
them.
Deu 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them
in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and
they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that
they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
Deu 31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day
for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto
other gods.
Deu 31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and
teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be
a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deu 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the
land which I swore unto their fathers, that floweth
with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen
fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and
break my covenant.
Deu 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils
and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a
witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I
know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought
them into the land which I swore.
Deu 31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day,
and taught it the children of Israel.
Deu 31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge,
and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt
bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them: and I will
be with thee.
Deu 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an
end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
Deu 31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bore
the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
Deu 31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the
side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for
a witness against thee.
Deu 31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck:
behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against
the LORD; and how much more after my death?
Deu 31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes,
and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven
and earth to record against them.
Deu 31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly
corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from
the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter
days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger
through the work of your hands.
Deu 31:30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the
congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Deuteronomy 32
Deu 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Deu 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech
shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the
showers upon the grass:
Deu 32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD:
ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Deu 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is
perfect: for all his ways are judgment:
a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is
he.
Deu 32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the
spot of his children: they are a
perverse and crooked generation.
Deu 32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people
and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
established thee?
Deu 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years
of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and
they will tell thee.
Deu 32:8 When the most High divided to the nations
their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the
people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deu 32:9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is
the lot of his inheritance.
Deu 32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the
waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as
the apple of his eye.
Deu 32:11 As an eagle stirreth
up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh
them, beareth them on her wings:
Deu 32:12 So the
LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Deu 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the
earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck
honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Deu 32:14 Butter of kine, and
milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the
grape.
Deu 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed
fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness;
then he forsook God which made him, and
lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deu 32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to
anger.
Deu 32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to
gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
Deu 32:18 Of the Rock that
begot thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Deu 32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them,
because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Deu 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I
will see what their end shall be: for they are
a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
Deu 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which
is not God; they have provoked me to
anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which
are not a people; I will provoke them to
anger with a foolish nation.
Deu 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and
shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Deu 32:23 I will heap mischiefs
upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
Deu 32:24 They shall be
burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction:
I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of
the dust.
Deu 32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall
destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Deu 32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I
would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Deu 32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the
enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Deu 32:28 For they are
a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them.
Deu 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Deu 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put
ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut
them up?
Deu 32:31 For their rock is
not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being
judges.
Deu 32:32 For their vine is
of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Deu 32:33 Their wine is
the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Deu 32:34 Is not
this laid up in store with me and sealed
up among my treasures?
Deu 32:35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their
foot shall slide in due time: for the
day of their calamity is at hand, and
the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Deu 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and
repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is
none shut up, or left.
Deu 32:37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their
rock in whom they trusted,
Deu 32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let
them rise up and help you, and be your
protection.
Deu 32:39 See now that I, even
I, am he, and there is no god with
me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Deu 32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I
live forever.
Deu 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand
take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward
them that hate me.
Deu 32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and
my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the
captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
Deu 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of
his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be
merciful unto his land, and to his
people.
Deu 32:44 And Moses came and spoke all the words of
this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea
the son of Nun.
Deu 32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these
words to all Israel:
Deu 32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto
all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your
children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Deu 32:47 For it is
not a vain thing for you; because it is
your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your
days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Deu 32:48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses that selfsame
day, saying,
Deu 32:49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount
Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that
is over against Jericho; and behold the
land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
Deu 32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy
brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his
people:
Deu 32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the
children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh,
in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me
not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Deu 32:52 Yet thou shalt see
the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the
children of Israel.
John 20
Joh 20:1 The first day
of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre,
and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Joh 20:2 Then she runneth,
and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre,
and we know not where they have laid him.
Joh 20:3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other
disciple, and came to the sepulchre.
Joh 20:4 So they ran both together: and the other
disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulchre.
Joh 20:5 And he stooping down, and looking
in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet
went he not in.
Joh 20:6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and
went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes
lie,
Joh 20:7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not
lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Joh 20:8 Then went in also that other disciple, which
came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
Joh 20:9 For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that
he must rise again from the dead.
Joh 20:10 Then the disciples went away again unto their
own home.
Joh 20:11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre
weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and
looked into the sepulchre,
Joh 20:12 And seeth two
angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where
the body of Jesus had lain.
Joh 20:13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto
them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid
him.
Joh 20:14 And when she had thus said, she turned
herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
Joh 20:15 Jesus saith unto
her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me
where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
Joh 20:16 Jesus saith unto
her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is
to say, Master.
Joh 20:17 Jesus saith unto
her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Joh 20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples
that she had seen the Lord, and that he
had spoken these things unto her.
Joh 20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first
day of the week, when the doors were
shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and
stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Joh 20:20 And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples
glad, when they saw the Lord.
Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
Joh 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto
them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Joh 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Joh 20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
Joh 20:25 The other disciples therefore said unto him,
We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands
the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and
thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
Joh 20:26 And after eight days again his disciples were
within, and Thomas with them: then came
Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace, be unto you.
Joh 20:27 Then saith he to
Thomas, Reach hither
thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
Joh 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My
Lord and my God.
Joh 20:29 Jesus saith unto
him, Thomas, because
thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not
seen, and yet
have believed.
Joh 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the
presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
Joh 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life
through his name.