Saturday, July 9, 2011

Saturday of the 4th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastPolyeleosJulian: June 26

Epistle

Romans 6.11-17

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11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.Log in to add notes

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.Log in to add notes

13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.Log in to add notes

14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.Log in to add notes

15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.Log in to add notes

16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?Log in to add notes

17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 8.14-23

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14And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.Log in to add notes

15And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.Log in to add notes

16When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:Log in to add notes

17That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.Log in to add notes

18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.Log in to add notes

19And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.Log in to add notes

20And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.Log in to add notes

21And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.Log in to add notes

22But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.Log in to add notes

23And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.Log in to add notes