Friday, August 10, 2012

Friday of the 10th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastJulian: July 28

Epistle

2 Corinthians 1.12-20

Read in context

12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.Log in to add notes

13For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;Log in to add notes

14As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.Log in to add notes

15And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;Log in to add notes

16And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judea.Log in to add notes

17When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?Log in to add notes

18But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.Log in to add notes

19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.Log in to add notes

20For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 22.23-33

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23The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,Log in to add notes

24Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.Log in to add notes

25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:Log in to add notes

26Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.Log in to add notes

27And last of all the woman died also.Log in to add notes

28Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.Log in to add notes

29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.Log in to add notes

30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.Log in to add notes

31But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,Log in to add notes

32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.Log in to add notes

33And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.Log in to add notes