Sunday, September 2, 2012

13th Sunday after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastJulian: August 20

Epistle

1 Corinthians 16.13-24

Read in context

13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.Log in to add notes

14Let all your things be done with charity.Log in to add notes

15I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)Log in to add notes

16That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.Log in to add notes

17I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.Log in to add notes

18For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.Log in to add notes

19The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.Log in to add notes

20All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.Log in to add notes

21The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.Log in to add notes

22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.Log in to add notes

23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.Log in to add notes

24My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 21.33-42

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33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:Log in to add notes

34And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.Log in to add notes

35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.Log in to add notes

36Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.Log in to add notes

37But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.Log in to add notes

38But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.Log in to add notes

39And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.Log in to add notes

40When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?Log in to add notes

41They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.Log in to add notes

42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?Log in to add notes