M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

31 ¶ And he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s, he has gotten all this glory.

² And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

³ Also the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

⁴ And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his sheep

⁵ and said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

⁶ And ye know that with all my strength I have served your father.

⁷ And your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

⁸ If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the sheep bore speckled; and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then all the sheep bore ringstraked.

⁹ Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

¹⁰ And it came to pass at the time that the sheep conceived, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in dreams, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the females were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

¹¹ And the angel of God spoke unto me in dreams, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.

¹² And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the sheep are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled; for I have seen all that Laban has done unto thee.

¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the pillar and where thou didst vow a vow unto me. Now arise, go out from this land and return unto the land of thy nature.

¹⁴ And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

¹⁵ Are we not counted of him strangers? For he has sold us and has even devoured all our price.

¹⁶ For all the riches which God has taken from our father, is ours and our son’s; now then, whatever God has said unto thee, do.

¹⁷ ¶ Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;

¹⁸ and he carried away all his livestock and all his goods which he had gotten, the livestock of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, to return unto Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

¹⁹ And Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the idols of her father.

²⁰ And Jacob stole away the heart of Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he fled.

²¹ So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up and passed the river and set his face toward Mount Gilead.

²² And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.

²³ Then he took his brethren with him and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in Mount Gilead.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Aramean in dreams by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

²⁵ ¶ Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount; and Laban with his brethren pitched in Mount Gilead.

²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away my heart and carried away my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

²⁷ Why didst thou flee away secretly and steal away from me and didst not tell me that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs with tambourine and with harp?

²⁸ And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

²⁹ It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt, but the God of your father spoke unto me last night, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

³⁰ And now, that thou art leaving, because thy desire is after thy father’s house, yet why hast thou stolen my gods?

³¹ And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Peradventure thou would take by force thy daughters from me.

³² With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let them not live; before our brethren discern what is thine with me and take it to thee. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

³³ And Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and came to Rachel’s tent.

³⁴ Now Rachel took the images and put them in a camel’s saddle and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent but did not find them.

³⁵ And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but did not find the images.

³⁶ ¶ Then Jacob was wroth and contended with Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

³⁷ Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren that they may judge between us both.

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not aborted their young, and I have not eaten the rams of thy flock.

³⁹ That which was torn of beasts I did not bring unto thee; I bore the sin; thou didst require of my hand that which was stolen, whether by day or by night.

⁴⁰ By day the drought consumed me, and by night, the frost; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

⁴² If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, were not with me, surely thou would send me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the work of my hands and rebuked thee last night.

⁴³ ¶ And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these sons are my sons, and these sheep are my sheep, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their sons unto whom they have given birth?

⁴⁴ Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

⁴⁵ Then Jacob took a stone and set it up for a pillar.

⁴⁶ And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones and made a heap; and they ate there upon the heap.

⁴⁷ And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

⁴⁹ and Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.

⁵⁰ If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee.

⁵¹ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have raised up between me and thee;

⁵² let this heap be witness and this pillar be witness that I will not pass over this heap against thee and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar against me, for harm.

⁵³ The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their fathers, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

⁵⁴ Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount and called his brethren to eat bread; and they ate bread and slept in the mount.

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them; and Laban departed and returned unto his place.

2 ¶ And again he entered into Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that he was in the house.

² And soon many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door; and he preached the word unto them.

³ And they came unto him, bringing a paralytic, carried by four men.

⁴ And when they could not come near unto him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof of the house where he was; and when they had broken it open, they let down the bed in which the paralytic lay.

⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the paralytic, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.

⁶ But there were certain of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts,

⁷ Why does this fellow so blaspheme? Who can forgive sins but God only?

⁸ And Jesus, knowing afterward in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said unto them, Why think ye these things in your hearts?

⁹ What is easier to say to the paralytic, Thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and take up thy bed and walk?

¹⁰ But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins (he spoke to the sick of the palsy),

¹¹ I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy bed and go to thy house.

¹² And by and by he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw anything like unto this.

¹³ ¶ And he went again unto the sea; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.

¹⁴ And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

¹⁵ And it came to pass, that as Jesus sat at the table in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also at the table together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many and they had followed him.

¹⁶ And the scribes and Pharisees, seeing him eat with publicans and sinners, said unto his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?

¹⁷ When Jesus heard it, he said unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.

¹⁸ ¶ And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees did fast and therefore came and said unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

¹⁹ And Jesus said unto them, Can those who are in a wedding fast while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

²⁰ But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days.

²¹ No one mends an old garment with a new piece of cloth, or else the new piece that filled it up tears away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

²² And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are lost; but new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

²³ And it came to pass that as he went through the planted fields again on the sabbath day, his disciples began, as they walked, to pluck the ears of grain.

²⁴ And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

²⁵ And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, he and those that were with him?

²⁶ How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?

²⁷ And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath;

²⁸ therefore the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

7 ¶ So the king and Haman came to the banquet with Esther, the queen.

² And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, Queen Esther? And it shall be granted thee. What is thy request? And it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.

³ Then Esther, the queen, answered and said, If I have found grace in thy sight, O king and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request.

⁴ For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. If we had been sold for menslaves and womenslaves, I would remain silent, even though the enemy could not recompense the damage to the king.

⁵ And King Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther, the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that has filled his heart with the arrogance to do so?

⁶ Then Esther said, The man who is the adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

⁷ ¶ And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden, and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther, the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

⁸ Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman had fallen upon the bed upon which Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? When this word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

⁹ Then said Harbonah, one of the eunuchs before the king, Behold also, the gallows {Heb. stake} fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him upon it.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

2 ¶ Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for in that which thou dost judge another, thou dost condemn thyself; for thou that judgest others doest the same things.

² For we are sure that the judgment of God is according to the truth against those who do such things.

³ And dost thou think this, O man, that judgest those who do such things and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

⁴ Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, ignoring that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

⁵ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁶ who will render to everyone according to his deeds:

⁷ to those who persevered in well doing, glory and honour and incorruption, to those who seek eternal life;

⁸ but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

⁹ Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek;

¹⁰ but glory, honour, and peace to everyone that works good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

¹¹ For there is no respect of persons with God.

¹² For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law

¹³ (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

¹⁴ for when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature that which is of the law, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves;

¹⁵ which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, accusing and also excusing their reasonings one with another)

¹⁶ in the day when God shall judge that which men have covered up, according to my gospel by Jesus, the Christ.

¹⁷ ¶ Behold, thou doth call thyself a Jew and art supported by the law and doth glory in God

¹⁸ and dost know his will and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹ and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

²⁰ an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of children, who hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

²¹ Thou, therefore, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

²² Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that dost abhor idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

²³ Thou that makest thy boast of the law, with rebellion to the law doth thou dishonour God?

²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

²⁵ For circumcision verily profits if thou keep the law, but if thou art a rebel to the law, thy circumcision is made into a foreskin.

²⁶ Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his foreskin be counted for circumcision?

²⁷ And that which is by nature foreskin, but keeps the law perfectly, shall judge thee who with the letter and with the circumcision art rebellious to the law.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is done outwardly in the flesh;

²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.