Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Wednesday of the 18th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastDoxologyJulian: September 20

Epistle

Ephesians 5.25-33

Read in context

25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;Log in to add notes

26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,Log in to add notes

27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.Log in to add notes

28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.Log in to add notes

29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:Log in to add notes

30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.Log in to add notes

31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.Log in to add notes

32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.Log in to add notes

33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 4.1-15

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1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,Log in to add notes

2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.Log in to add notes

3And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.Log in to add notes

4And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.Log in to add notes

5And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.Log in to add notes

6And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.Log in to add notes

7If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.Log in to add notes

8And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.Log in to add notes

9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:Log in to add notes

10For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:Log in to add notes

11And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.Log in to add notes

12And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.Log in to add notes

13And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.Log in to add notes

14And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.Log in to add notes

15And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.Log in to add notes