Daily Scripture

ORTHODOX BIBLE STUDY

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Saturday of the 15th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: September 22

Epistle

1 Cor 4.17-5.5

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Brethren,

4:17For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

4:20For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power.

4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?

5:1It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

5:2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

5:3For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, [concerning] him that hath so done this deed,

5:4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Gospel

Luke 4.31-36

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At that time, Jesus

31And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

32And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.

33And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,

34Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, [thou] Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.

35And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.

36And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word [is] this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.