Learning to Pray

Horizon Church May Bible Reading Plan - Faith in the Wilderness: The Book of Numbers

Love Your Neighbor

The Triumph of the Cross:  Christ’s Victory Over Death

DON’T FIGHT ALONE: How Isolation Keeps Us Stuck in Anxiety and Why Community Helps Us Win Mental Battles

Stop Saying You Are “Bad With Money”

The Psalms

The Battle of Pride vs. Humility

The Shepherd and His Names: Finding God in Psalm 23

God’s Economy: The More You Give, the More You Gain

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

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

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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Repent or Perish</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them&#8212;do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then he told this parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, &#8216;For three years now I&#8217;ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven&#8217;t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; the man replied, &#8216;leave it alone for one more year, and I&#8217;ll dig around it and fertilize it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, &#8220;There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Lord answered him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You hypocrites! Doesn&#8217;t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><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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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In a desert land he found him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="content">in a barren and howling waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="content">He shielded him and cared for him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="content">he guarded him as the apple of his eye,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">like an eagle that stirs up its nest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="content">and hovers over its young,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="content">that spreads its wings to catch them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="content">and carries them aloft.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> alone led him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.32.12"><span class="content">no foreign god was with him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He made him ride on the heights of the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="content">and fed him with the fruit of the fields.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="content">He nourished him with honey from the rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="content">and with oil from the flinty crag,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">with curds and milk from herd and flock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">and with fattened lambs and goats,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">with choice rams of Bashan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">and the finest kernels of wheat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">You drank the foaming blood of the grape.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">137</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 137</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="content">when we remembered Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There on the poplars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="content">we hung our harps,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">for there our captors asked us for songs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">our tormentors demanded songs of joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">they said, &#8220;Sing us one of the songs of Zion!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How can we sing the songs of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="content">while in a foreign land?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If I forget you, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="content">may my right hand forget its skill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">if I do not remember you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">if I do not consider Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">my highest joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what the Edomites did</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">on the day Jerusalem fell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Tear it down,&#8221; they cried,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">&#8220;tear it down to its foundations!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">happy is the one who repays you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">according to what you have done to us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.137.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Happy is the one who seizes your infants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.137.9"><span class="content">and dashes them against the rocks.</span></span></div>
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