Tuesday, October 20, 2043

Tuesday of the 18th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: October 7

Epistle

Ephesians 5.20-26

Read in context

20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;Log in to add notes

21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.Log in to add notes

22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.Log in to add notes

23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.Log in to add notes

24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.Log in to add notes

25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;Log in to add notes

26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 6.37-45

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37Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:Log in to add notes

38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.Log in to add notes

39And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?Log in to add notes

40The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.Log in to add notes

41And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?Log in to add notes

42Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.Log in to add notes

43For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.Log in to add notes

44For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.Log in to add notes

45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.Log in to add notes