1Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.Log in to add notes
2But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.Log in to add notes
3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.Log in to add notes
4And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.Log in to add notes
5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.Log in to add notes
6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.Log in to add notes
7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.Log in to add notes
8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.Log in to add notes
9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.Log in to add notes
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?Log in to add notes
19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.Log in to add notes
20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.Log in to add notes
21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?Log in to add notes
22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:Log in to add notes
23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.Log in to add notes
24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.Log in to add notes
25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.Log in to add notes
26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.Log in to add notes
27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?Log in to add notes
28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.Log in to add notes
29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.Log in to add notes
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:Log in to add notes
31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.Log in to add notes
1After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.Log in to add notes
2And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?Log in to add notes
3And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.Log in to add notes
4And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.Log in to add notes
5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.Log in to add notes
6And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.Log in to add notes
7And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.Log in to add notes
8And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?Log in to add notes
9And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.Log in to add notes
10And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.Log in to add notes
11And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.Log in to add notes
12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.Log in to add notes
13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;Log in to add notes
14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.Log in to add notes
15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.Log in to add notes
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7But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest.Log in to add notes
16Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous.Log in to add notes
17For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end the Lord hath set him in safety.Log in to add notes
18They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach among the dead for evermore.Log in to add notes
19For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation; and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their memorial shall perish.Log in to add notes
20And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.Log in to add notes
1Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.Log in to add notes
2When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for.Log in to add notes
3And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach:Log in to add notes
4We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour:Log in to add notes
5How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!Log in to add notes
6Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.Log in to add notes
7We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.Log in to add notes
Vespers — St Innocent
Proverbs 10.2-2; Proverbs 10.28-28; Proverbs 10.31-32; Wisdom of Solomon 6.12-16; Wisdom of Solomon 7.30-30; Wisdom of Solomon 8.2-4; Wisdom of Solomon 8.7-8; Wisdom of Solomon 8.13-13; Wisdom of Solomon 9.1-5; Wisdom of Solomon 9.10-10; Wisdom of Solomon 9.14-14
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2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.Log in to add notes
28The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.Log in to add notes
31The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.Log in to add notes
32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.Log in to add notes
12Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.Log in to add notes
13She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.Log in to add notes
14Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail: for he shall find her sitting at his doors.Log in to add notes
15To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom: and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.Log in to add notes
16For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.Log in to add notes
30For after this cometh night: but vice shall not prevail against wisdom.Log in to add notes
2I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to make her my spouse, and I was a lover of her beauty.Log in to add notes
3In that she is conversant with God, she magnifieth her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.Log in to add notes
4For she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and a lover of his works.Log in to add notes
7And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.Log in to add notes
8If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.Log in to add notes
13Moreover by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and leave behind me an everlasting memorial to them that come after me.Log in to add notes
1O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word,Log in to add notes
2And ordained man through thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which thou hast made,Log in to add notes
3And order the world according to equity and righteousness, and execute judgment with an upright heart:Log in to add notes
4Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne; and reject me not from among thy children:Log in to add notes
5For I thy servant and son of thine handmaid am a feeble person, and of a short time, and too young for the understanding of judgment and laws.Log in to add notes
10O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto thee.Log in to add notes
14For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain.Log in to add notes
7:26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;Log in to add notes
7:27Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.Log in to add notes
7:28For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.Log in to add notes
8:1Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;Log in to add notes
8:2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.Log in to add notes
9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.Log in to add notes
10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.Log in to add notes
11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.Log in to add notes
12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.Log in to add notes
13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.Log in to add notes
14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.Log in to add notes
15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.Log in to add notes
16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.Log in to add notes