Friday, October 21, 2011

Friday of the 19th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastJulian: October 8

Epistle

Philippians 1.27-2.4

Read in context

1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;Log in to add notes

1:28And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.Log in to add notes

1:29For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;Log in to add notes

1:30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.Log in to add notes

2:1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,Log in to add notes

2:2Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.Log in to add notes

2:3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.Log in to add notes

2:4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 7.31-35

Read in context

31And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?Log in to add notes

32They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.Log in to add notes

33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.Log in to add notes

34The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!Log in to add notes

35But wisdom is justified of all her children.Log in to add notes