Thursday, December 30, 2010

Thursday of the 32nd week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: December 17

Epistle

James 4.7-5.9

Read in context

4:7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.Log in to add notes

4:8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.Log in to add notes

4:9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.Log in to add notes

4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.Log in to add notes

4:11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.Log in to add notes

4:12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?Log in to add notes

4:13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:Log in to add notes

4:14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.Log in to add notes

4:15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.Log in to add notes

4:16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.Log in to add notes

4:17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.Log in to add notes

5:1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.Log in to add notes

5:2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.Log in to add notes

5:3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.Log in to add notes

5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.Log in to add notes

5:5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.Log in to add notes

5:6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.Log in to add notes

5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.Log in to add notes

5:8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.Log in to add notes

5:9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Mark 9.10-16

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10And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.Log in to add notes

11And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?Log in to add notes

12And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.Log in to add notes

13But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.Log in to add notes

14And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.Log in to add notes

15And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.Log in to add notes

16And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?Log in to add notes