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
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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
11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;Log in to add notes
12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.Log in to add notes
13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:Log in to add notes
14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?Log in to add notes
23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.Log in to add notes
24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.Log in to add notes
25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.Log in to add notes
26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.Log in to add notes
27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.Log in to add notes
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.Log in to add notes
29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.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
32And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,Log in to add notes
33Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:Log in to add notes
34And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.Log in to add notes
35And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.Log in to add notes
36And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?Log in to add notes
37They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.Log in to add notes
38But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?Log in to add notes
39And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:Log in to add notes
40But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.Log in to add notes
41And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.Log in to add notes
42But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.Log in to add notes
43But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:Log in to add notes
44And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.Log in to add notes
45For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.Log in to add notes
36And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.Log in to add notes
37And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,Log in to add notes
38And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.Log in to add notes
39Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.Log in to add notes
40And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.Log in to add notes
41There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.Log in to add notes
42And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?Log in to add notes
43Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.Log in to add notes
44And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.Log in to add notes
45Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.Log in to add notes
46My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.Log in to add notes
47Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.Log in to add notes
48And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.Log in to add notes
49And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?Log in to add notes
50And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.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