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Matthew 18:22
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Everywhere in Egypt the water will turn
to blood, even the water stored in
wooden bowls and stone pots.’”
20So Moses and Aaron did just as the
Lord commanded them. As Pharaoh
and all of his officials watched, Aaron
raised his staff and struck the water of
the Nile. Suddenly, the whole river
turned to blood! 21The fish in the river
died, and the water became so foul that
the Egyptians couldn’t drink it. There
was blood everywhere throughout the
land of Egypt. 22But again the magicians
of Egypt used their magic, and they, too,
turned water into blood. So Pharaoh’s
heart remained hard. He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord
had predicted. 23Pharaoh returned to
his palace and put the whole thing out
of his mind. 24Then all the Egyptians
dug along the riverbank to find drinking water, for they couldn’t drink the
water from the Nile.
25 Seven days passed from the time
the Lord struck the Nile.
6:2 Yahweh is a transliteration of the proper name YHWH
that is sometimes rendered “Jehovah”; in this translation
it is usually rendered “the LORD” (note the use of small
capitals). 6:3 El-Shaddai, which means “God Almighty,”
is the name for God used in Gen 17:1; 28:3; 35:11; 43:14;
48:3. 6:12 Hebrew I have uncircumcised lips; also
in 6:30. 7:9 Hebrew tannin, which elsewhere refers to
a sea monster. Greek version translates it “dragon.”
7:14 Hebrew heavy.
MATTHEW 18:21–19:12
Then Peter came to him and asked,
“Lord, how often should I forgive someone* who sins against me? Seven times?”
22“No, not seven times,” Jesus replied,
“but seventy times seven!*
23“Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven
can be compared to a king who decided
to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from
him. 24In the process, one of his debtors
was brought in who owed him millions
of dollars.* 25He couldn’t pay, so his
master ordered that he be sold—along
with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt.
26“But the man fell down before his
master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.’ 27 Then
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his master was filled with pity for him,
and he released him and forgave his debt.
28“But when the man left the king, he
went to a fellow servant who owed him a
few thousand dollars.* He grabbed him
by the throat and demanded instant
payment.
29“His fellow servant fell down before
him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be
patient with me, and I will pay it,’ he
pleaded. 30But his creditor wouldn’t wait.
He had the man arrested and put in
prison until the debt could be paid in full.
31“When some of the other servants
saw this, they were very upset. They
went to the king and told him everything that had happened. 32 Then the
king called in the man he had forgiven
and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you
that tremendous debt because you
pleaded with me. 33 Shouldn’t you have
mercy on your fellow servant, just as I
had mercy on you?’ 34Then the angry
king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt.
35“That’s what my heavenly Father
will do to you if you refuse to forgive
your brothers and sisters* from your
heart.”
19:1 When
Jesus had finished saying
these things, he left Galilee and went
down to the region of Judea east of the
Jordan River. 2Large crowds followed
him there, and he healed their sick.
3 Some Pharisees came and tried to
trap him with this question: “Should a
man be allowed to divorce his wife for
just any reason?”
4“Haven’t you read the Scriptures?”
Jesus replied. “They record that from the
beginning ‘God made them male and female.’*” 5And he said, “‘This explains
why a man leaves his father and mother
and is joined to his wife, and the two are
united into one.’* 6Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart
what God has joined together.”
7“Then why did Moses say in the law
that a man could give his wife a written
notice of divorce and send her away?”*
they asked.
