Daily Scripture

Epistle

2 Thessalonians 2.13-3.5

2:13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

2:14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2:15Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

2:17Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

3:1Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:

3:2And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

3:3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

3:4And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

3:5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Gospel

Luke 11.47-12.1

Read in context

11:47Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

11:48Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

11:49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

11:50That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

11:51From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

11:52Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

11:53And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

11:54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

12:1In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Thursday, November 15, 2007