Thursday, September 6, 2040

Thursday of the 11th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastDoxologyJulian: August 24

Epistle

2 Corinthians 4.1-6

Read in context

1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;Log in to add notes

2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.Log in to add notes

3But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:Log in to add notes

4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.Log in to add notes

5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.Log in to add notes

6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 24.13-28

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13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.Log in to add notes

14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.Log in to add notes

15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)Log in to add notes

16Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:Log in to add notes

17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:Log in to add notes

18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.Log in to add notes

19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!Log in to add notes

20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:Log in to add notes

21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.Log in to add notes

22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.Log in to add notes

23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.Log in to add notes

24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.Log in to add notes

25Behold, I have told you before.Log in to add notes

26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.Log in to add notes

27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.Log in to add notes

28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.Log in to add notes