Friday, November 7, 2008

Friday of the 21st week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastJulian: October 25

Epistle

Colossians 2.1-7

Read in context

1For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;Log in to add notes

2That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;Log in to add notes

3In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.Log in to add notes

4And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.Log in to add notes

5For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.Log in to add notes

6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:Log in to add notes

7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 11.23-26

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23He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.Log in to add notes

24When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.Log in to add notes

25And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.Log in to add notes

26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.Log in to add notes