Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Wednesday of the 11th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastDoxologyJulian: August 2

Epistle

2 Corinthians 3.4-11

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4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:Log in to add notes

5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;Log in to add notes

6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.Log in to add notes

7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:Log in to add notes

8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?Log in to add notes

9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.Log in to add notes

10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.Log in to add notes

11For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 23.29-39

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29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,Log in to add notes

30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.Log in to add notes

31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.Log in to add notes

32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.Log in to add notes

33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?Log in to add notes

34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:Log in to add notes

35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.Log in to add notes

36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.Log in to add notes

37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!Log in to add notes

38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.Log in to add notes

39For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.Log in to add notes