Wednesday, September 19, 2040

Wednesday of the 13th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastSix-sticheraJulian: September 6

Epistle

2 Corinthians 9.12-10.7

Read in context

9:12For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;Log in to add notes

9:13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;Log in to add notes

9:14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.Log in to add notes

9:15Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.Log in to add notes

10:1Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:Log in to add notes

10:2But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.Log in to add notes

10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:Log in to add notes

10:4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)Log in to add notes

10:5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;Log in to add notes

10:6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.Log in to add notes

10:7Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Mark 3.19-27

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19And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.Log in to add notes

20And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.Log in to add notes

21And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.Log in to add notes

22And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.Log in to add notes

23And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?Log in to add notes

24And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.Log in to add notes

25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.Log in to add notes

26And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.Log in to add notes

27No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.Log in to add notes