Daily Scripture

ORTHODOX BIBLE STUDY

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Thursday of the 15th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastDoxologyJulian: September 20

Epistle

Gal 3.23-4.5

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Brethren,

3:23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

3:24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

3:25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

3:26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

3:27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

3:29And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

4:1Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

4:2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

4:3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

4:5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Gospel

Luke 4.16-22

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At that time, Jesus

16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

17And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

18The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

20And he closed the book, and he gave [it] again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

22And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?