Wednesday, October 21, 2043

Wednesday of the 18th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastJulian: October 8

Epistle

Ephesians 5.25-33

Read in context

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

27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.Log in to add notes

28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.Log in to add notes

29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:Log in to add notes

30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.Log in to add notes

31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.Log in to add notes

32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.Log in to add notes

33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 6.46-7.1

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6:46And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?Log in to add notes

6:47Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:Log in to add notes

6:48He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.Log in to add notes

6:49But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.Log in to add notes

7:1Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.Log in to add notes