Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Wednesday of the 10th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastJulian: August 4

Epistle

1 Corinthians 16.4-12

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4And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.Log in to add notes

5Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.Log in to add notes

6And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.Log in to add notes

7For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.Log in to add notes

8But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.Log in to add notes

9For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.Log in to add notes

10Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.Log in to add notes

11Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.Log in to add notes

12As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 21.28-32

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28But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.Log in to add notes

29He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.Log in to add notes

30And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.Log in to add notes

31Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.Log in to add notes

32For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.Log in to add notes