Thursday, July 13, 2045

Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles

Fasting: No fastPolyeleosJulian: June 30

Epistle

1 Corinthians 7.24-35

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24Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.Log in to add notes

25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.Log in to add notes

26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.Log in to add notes

27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.Log in to add notes

28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.Log in to add notes

29But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;Log in to add notes

30And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;Log in to add notes

31And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.Log in to add notes

32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:Log in to add notes

33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.Log in to add notes

34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.Log in to add notes

35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.Log in to add notes

Epistle — Apostles

1 Corinthians 4.9-16

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9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.Log in to add notes

10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.Log in to add notes

11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;Log in to add notes

12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:Log in to add notes

13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.Log in to add notes

14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.Log in to add notes

15For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.Log in to add notes

16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 15.12-21

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12Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?Log in to add notes

13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.Log in to add notes

14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.Log in to add notes

15Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.Log in to add notes

16And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?Log in to add notes

17Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?Log in to add notes

18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.Log in to add notes

19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:Log in to add notes

20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.Log in to add notes

21Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.Log in to add notes

Gospel — Apostles

Mark 3.13-19

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13And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.Log in to add notes

14And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,Log in to add notes

15And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:Log in to add notes

16And Simon he surnamed Peter;Log in to add notes

17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:Log in to add notes

18And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,Log in to add notes

19And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.Log in to add notes