Daily Scripture

ORTHODOX BIBLE STUDY

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Forefeast of Theophany

Fasting: No fastJulian: January 3

Epistle

Heb 10.35-11.7

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Brethren,

10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

10:37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

10:39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

11:2For by it the elders obtained a good report.

11:3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

11:4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

11:5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

11:6But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

11:7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Gospel

Mark 12.38-44

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The Lord said to His disciples:

38And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and [love] salutations in the marketplaces,

39And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

40Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

41And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

42And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

43And he called [unto him] his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

44For all [they] did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, [even] all her living.

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