Tuesday, November 17, 2043

Tuesday of the 22nd week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastJulian: November 4

Epistle

Colossians 2.20-3.3

Read in context

2:20Wherefore 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

2:21(Touch not; taste not; handle not;Log in to add notes

2:22Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?Log in to add notes

2:23Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.Log in to add notes

3:1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.Log in to add notes

3:2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.Log in to add notes

3:3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 11.34-41

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34The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.Log in to add notes

35Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.Log in to add notes

36If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.Log in to add notes

37And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.Log in to add notes

38And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.Log in to add notes

39And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.Log in to add notes

40Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?Log in to add notes

41But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.Log in to add notes