Monday, November 12, 2007

Monday of the 25th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastJulian: October 30

Epistle

2 Thessalonians 1.1-10

Read in context

1Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:Log in to add notes

2Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Log in to add notes

3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;Log in to add notes

4So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:Log in to add notes

5Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:Log in to add notes

6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;Log in to add notes

7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,Log in to add notes

8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:Log in to add notes

9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;Log in to add notes

10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 11.29-33

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29And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.Log in to add notes

30For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.Log in to add notes

31The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.Log in to add notes

32The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.Log in to add notes

33No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.Log in to add notes