1Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.Log in to add notes
2But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.Log in to add notes
3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.Log in to add notes
4And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.Log in to add notes
5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.Log in to add notes
6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.Log in to add notes
7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.Log in to add notes
8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.Log in to add notes
9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.Log in to add notes
11Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.Log in to add notes
12I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.Log in to add notes
13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.Log in to add notes
14Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.Log in to add notes
15Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.Log in to add notes
16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.Log in to add notes
17But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.Log in to add notes
1And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.Log in to add notes
2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.Log in to add notes
3And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.Log in to add notes
4Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.Log in to add notes
5And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.Log in to add notes
6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.Log in to add notes
7And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?Log in to add notes
8And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.Log in to add notes
9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.Log in to add notes
10And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.Log in to add notes
11And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.Log in to add notes
12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.Log in to add notes
13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.Log in to add notes
14And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah–jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.Log in to add notes
15And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,Log in to add notes
16And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:Log in to add notes
17That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;Log in to add notes
18And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.Log in to add notes
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7But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest.Log in to add notes
16Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous.Log in to add notes
17For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end the Lord hath set him in safety.Log in to add notes
18They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach among the dead for evermore.Log in to add notes
19For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation; and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their memorial shall perish.Log in to add notes
20And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.Log in to add notes
1Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.Log in to add notes
2When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for.Log in to add notes
3And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach:Log in to add notes
4We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour:Log in to add notes
5How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!Log in to add notes
6Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.Log in to add notes
7We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.Log in to add notes
Vespers — St Innocent
Proverbs 10.2-2; Proverbs 10.28-28; Proverbs 10.31-32; Wisdom of Solomon 6.12-16; Wisdom of Solomon 7.30-30; Wisdom of Solomon 8.2-4; Wisdom of Solomon 8.7-8; Wisdom of Solomon 8.13-13; Wisdom of Solomon 9.1-5; Wisdom of Solomon 9.10-10; Wisdom of Solomon 9.14-14
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2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.Log in to add notes
28The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.Log in to add notes
31The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.Log in to add notes
32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.Log in to add notes
12Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.Log in to add notes
13She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.Log in to add notes
14Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail: for he shall find her sitting at his doors.Log in to add notes
15To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom: and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.Log in to add notes
16For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.Log in to add notes
30For after this cometh night: but vice shall not prevail against wisdom.Log in to add notes
2I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to make her my spouse, and I was a lover of her beauty.Log in to add notes
3In that she is conversant with God, she magnifieth her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.Log in to add notes
4For she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and a lover of his works.Log in to add notes
7And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.Log in to add notes
8If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.Log in to add notes
13Moreover by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and leave behind me an everlasting memorial to them that come after me.Log in to add notes
1O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word,Log in to add notes
2And ordained man through thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which thou hast made,Log in to add notes
3And order the world according to equity and righteousness, and execute judgment with an upright heart:Log in to add notes
4Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne; and reject me not from among thy children:Log in to add notes
5For I thy servant and son of thine handmaid am a feeble person, and of a short time, and too young for the understanding of judgment and laws.Log in to add notes
10O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto thee.Log in to add notes
14For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain.Log in to add notes
7:26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;Log in to add notes
7:27Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.Log in to add notes
7:28For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.Log in to add notes
8:1Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;Log in to add notes
8:2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.Log in to add notes
9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.Log in to add notes
10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.Log in to add notes
11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.Log in to add notes
12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.Log in to add notes
13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.Log in to add notes
14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.Log in to add notes
15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.Log in to add notes
16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.Log in to add notes