Luke 13:10-21

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A Woman with a Disabling Spirit

¹⁰Now ^(A)he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. ¹¹And behold, there was a woman who had had ^(B)a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. ¹²When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” ¹³And he ^(C)laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she ^(D)glorified God. ¹⁴But ^(E)the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus ^(F)had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, ^(G)“There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” ¹⁵Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! ^(H)Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? ¹⁶And ought not this woman, ^(I)a daughter of Abraham whom ^(J)Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” ¹⁷As he said these things, ^(K)all his adversaries were put to shame, and ^(L)all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

The Mustard Seed and the Leaven

¹⁸^(M)He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? ¹⁹It is like ^(N)a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”

²⁰And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? ²¹^(O)It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in ^(P)three measures of flour, until it was ^(Q)all leavened.”

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Proverbs 2

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The Value of Wisdom

2 ^(A)My son, ^(B)if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you,
²making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;
³yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice ^(C)for understanding,
⁴if you seek it like ^(D)silver
    and search for it as for ^(E)hidden treasures,
⁵then ^(F)you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.
⁶For ^(G)the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
⁷he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
    he is ^(H)a shield to those who ^(I)walk in integrity,
⁸guarding the paths of justice
    and ^(J)watching over the way of his ^(K)saints.
⁹^(L)Then you will understand ^(M)righteousness and justice
    and equity, every good path;
¹⁰for wisdom will come into your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
¹¹^(N)discretion will ^(O)watch over you,
    understanding will guard you,
¹²delivering you from the way of evil,
    from men of perverted speech,
¹³who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to ^(P)walk in the ways of darkness,
¹⁴who ^(Q)rejoice in doing evil
    and ^(R)delight in the perverseness of evil,
¹⁵men whose ^(S)paths are crooked,
    ^(T)and who are ^(U)devious in their ways.

¹⁶So ^(V)you will be delivered from the forbidden^[a] woman,
    from ^(W)the adulteress^[b] with ^(X)her smooth words,
¹⁷who forsakes ^(Y)the companion of her youth
    and forgets ^(Z)the covenant of her God;
¹⁸^(AA)for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;^[c]
¹⁹none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

²⁰So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
²¹For the upright ^(AB)will inhabit the land,
    and those with integrity will remain in it,
²²but the wicked will be ^(AC)cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be ^(AD)rooted out of it.