Thursday, November 14, 2041

Thursday of the 23rd week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: November 1

Epistle

1 Thessalonians 2.9-14

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9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.Log in to add notes

10Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:Log in to add notes

11As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,Log in to add notes

12That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.Log in to add notes

13For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.Log in to add notes

14For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 11.47-12.1

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11:47Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.Log in to add notes

11:48Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.Log in to add notes

11:49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:Log in to add notes

11:50That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;Log in to add notes

11:51From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.Log in to add notes

11:52Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.Log in to add notes

11:53And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:Log in to add notes

11:54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.Log in to add notes

12:1In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.Log in to add notes