Monday, November 16, 2043

Monday of the 22nd week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastJulian: November 3

Epistle

Colossians 2.13-20

Read in context

13And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;Log in to add notes

14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;Log in to add notes

15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.Log in to add notes

16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:Log in to add notes

17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.Log in to add notes

18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,Log in to add notes

19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.Log in to add notes

20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 11.29-33

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29And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.Log in to add notes

30For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.Log in to add notes

31The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.Log in to add notes

32The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.Log in to add notes

33No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.Log in to add notes