Friday, July 5, 2041

Friday of the 4th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastJulian: June 22

Epistle

Romans 11.25-36

Read in context

25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.Log in to add notes

26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:Log in to add notes

27For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.Log in to add notes

28As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.Log in to add notes

29For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.Log in to add notes

30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:Log in to add notes

31Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.Log in to add notes

32For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.Log in to add notes

33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!Log in to add notes

34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?Log in to add notes

35Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?Log in to add notes

36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 12.1-8

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1At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.Log in to add notes

2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.Log in to add notes

3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;Log in to add notes

4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?Log in to add notes

5Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?Log in to add notes

6But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.Log in to add notes

7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.Log in to add notes

8For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.Log in to add notes