Daily Scripture

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Friday, November 9, 2012

Friday of the 23rd week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastJulian: October 27

Epistle

1 Thessalonians 2.14-19

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14For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:Log in to add notes

15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:Log in to add notes

16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.Log in to add notes

17But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.Log in to add notes

18Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.Log in to add notes

19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 11.23-26

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23He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.Log in to add notes

24When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.Log in to add notes

25And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.Log in to add notes

26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.Log in to add notes