Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles

Fasting: No fastPolyeleosJulian: June 30

Epistle

1 Corinthians 6.20-7.12

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6:20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.Log in to add notes

7:1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.Log in to add notes

7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.Log in to add notes

7:3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.Log in to add notes

7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.Log in to add notes

7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.Log in to add notes

7:6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.Log in to add notes

7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.Log in to add notes

7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.Log in to add notes

7:9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.Log in to add notes

7:10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:Log in to add notes

7:11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.Log in to add notes

7:12But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.Log in to add notes

Epistle — Apostles

1 Corinthians 4.9-16

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9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.Log in to add notes

10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.Log in to add notes

11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;Log in to add notes

12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:Log in to add notes

13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.Log in to add notes

14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.Log in to add notes

15For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.Log in to add notes

16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 14.1-13

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1At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,Log in to add notes

2And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.Log in to add notes

3For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.Log in to add notes

4For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.Log in to add notes

5And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.Log in to add notes

6But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.Log in to add notes

7Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.Log in to add notes

8And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.Log in to add notes

9And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.Log in to add notes

10And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.Log in to add notes

11And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.Log in to add notes

12And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.Log in to add notes

13When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.Log in to add notes

Gospel — Apostles

Mark 3.13-19

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13And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.Log in to add notes

14And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,Log in to add notes

15And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:Log in to add notes

16And Simon he surnamed Peter;Log in to add notes

17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:Log in to add notes

18And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,Log in to add notes

19And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.Log in to add notes