Luke:11

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* One day Jesus was in a place talking with God . When he had finished , one of his disciples said to him , Lord , teach us to talk with God as John taught his disciples . * Jesus said , When you talk with God , say , "Our Father in heaven , may your name be kept holy . May your kingdom come . * Give us our food day by day . * Forgive us for the wrong things we have done . We forgive everyone who has done wrong to us . Do not lead us to be tested ." * Jesus said to them , Maybe one of you has a friend . You go to him in the middle of the night and say to him , "Friend , lend me three loaves of bread . * A friend has come to my house . He has been on the road . I have no food to give him to eat ." * Maybe the friend in the house answers you and says , "Do not trouble me . The door is locked . And my children and I are in bed . I cannot get up and give you anything ." * I tell you this . Maybe he will not give him anything because he is his friend . But he will get up and give him what he needs because he keeps on asking for it . * And I tell you , ask and you will get what you ask for . Look and you will find what you look for . Knock and the door will be opened for you . * Everyone who asks will get . The one who looks will find . And the one who knocks will have the door opened for him . * Which of you fathers will give your son a snake if he asks for a fish ? * Will you give him a scorpion &lt ;FI &gt ;an insect with a sting &lt ;Fi &gt ; if he asks for an egg ? * You are wrong and yet you know how to give good things to your children . Much more , the Father in heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him . * Jesus was driving a bad spirit out of a man who could not talk . When the spirit left him , the man could talk . The people were surprised . * But some of them said , This man drives out bad spirits by the help of Beelzebub , the chief of bad spirits . * Other people wanted to test Jesus . They asked him to show them a sign from heaven . * But Jesus knew what they were thinking . So he said , If one part of any country fights against the other part of the country , that country is spoiled . And if one part of any family fights against the other part of the family , it cannot stand . * If Satan fights against himself , how will his kingdom stand ? You say I drive out bad spirits by the help of Beelzebub . * If I drive out bad spirits by the help of Beelzebub , by whose help do your own people drive them out ? Your own people will judge you for this ! * But if I drive out bad spirits by the help of God , then know this , Gods kingdom is here with you now . * A strong man has something in his hand to fight . He guards his place . He will not lose his things . * But when a stronger man comes , he catches the man who guards his house . He will take away what is in the mans hand . And he will take his things and give them to his friends . * Anyone who is not with me is against me . Anyone who does not work with me , works against me . * When a bad spirit has gone out of a man , he goes through dry places . He looks for a place to rest , but he does not find any . Then he says , "I will go back to my house from where I came ." * When he comes back , he finds it clean and all fixed up . * Then he goes and brings seven other spirits who are worse than he is . They go in and live there . Now the man is worse than he was at first . * As he said this , a woman among the people called out , Happy is your mother who gave birth to you , and fed you as a baby . * But Jesus said , Happy are those who hear Gods word and obey it ! * More and more people were coming . He started to talk . He said , People today are bad . They want a sign . No sign will be given them but the sign of Jonah the prophet of God . * Jonah was a sign to the men in the city of Nineveh . In the same way the Son of Man will be a sign to the people today . * When the people are judged , the Queen from the South will stand up and speak against men who live today . She came a long way to hear the wise words of Solomon . The one who is here is greater than Solomon . * When people are judged , the men of Nineveh will stand up and speak against the people of today . They stopped their wrong ways when Jonah told them Gods word . And the one who is here is greater than Jonah . * No person lights a lamp and hides it in a hole or puts it under a basket . But he puts it on a place for a lamp . Then people who come in can see the light . * Your body gets its light through your eyes . When you have good eyes , all your body has light . But when your eyes are bad , your body is in darkness . * So be sure that it is not dark in you where it should be light . * If no part of your body is dark , it will all be light . It will be like a lamp that shines to give you light . * While Jesus was saying these things , a Pharisee asked him to come to eat at his house . So Jesus went in and sat at the table . * The Pharisee saw that Jesus did not wash his hands before he ate . He was surprised . * The Lord said to him , You Pharisees wash the outside of a cup and a dish clean . But inside you are full of greed and wrong ways . * You are fools ! Did not God make the outside and inside also ? * Do good , and do it from your heart . Then everything is clean for you . * You Pharisees will have trouble ! You give to God a tenth part of small garden plants . But you do not judge in the right way . And you do not love God . You should do these things and the other things too . * You Pharisees will have trouble ! In the meeting houses you want to sit in the front seats . And in the market you want people to greet you . * You will have trouble ! You are not true to yourselves ! You are like graves that are not marked . Men walk over them and do not know it . * Then one of the men who taught Gods law said to Jesus , Teacher , when you say these things , you talk against us too . * Jesus said , You men will have trouble also ! You put heavy loads on peoples backs . But you yourselves will not put up one finger to help carry the loads . * You will have trouble ! You build places to bury the prophets of God that your fathers killed . * In this way you show you agree to the things your fathers did . They killed the prophets , and you build places to bury them . * That is why God , who is wise , said , "I will send prophets and messengers to them . They will kill some of them . And they will trouble some of them ." * So the people who are living now will be punished for all the blood of the prophets of God that is on the ground since the world was made . * I mean all the blood from the time of Abel to the time of Zechariah . (He was killed between the holy table and the temple .) Yes , I tell you . The people who are living now will be punished for all of it . * You teachers of Gods law will have trouble ! You have taken away the key of the door where people can go in and know what is true . You yourselves did not go in , and you stopped those who were going in . * When Jesus left the house , the scribes and Pharisees began to be very angry with him . They asked him questions about many things . * They wanted him to say something that was wrong so they could make trouble for him .

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