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
1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.Log in to add notes
2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.Log in to add notes
3Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.Log in to add notes
4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.Log in to add notes
5Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?Log in to add notes
6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?Log in to add notes
7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?Log in to add notes
8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.Log in to add notes
9Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;Log in to add notes
10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:Log in to add notes
11And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.Log in to add notes
26And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.Log in to add notes
27And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?Log in to add notes
28And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.Log in to add notes
29And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.Log in to add notes
30And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.Log in to add notes
31And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.Log in to add notes
1Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.Log in to add notes
2And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.Log in to add notes
3And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.Log in to add notes
4And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.Log in to add notes
5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.Log in to add notes
6For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.Log in to add notes
7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.Log in to add notes
8So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.Log in to add notes
9Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:Log in to add notes
10And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:Log in to add notes
11And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.Log in to add notes
12And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.Log in to add notes
13And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.Log in to add notes
14And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.Log in to add notes
15Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.Log in to add notes
16And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.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
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
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