Wednesday, August 29, 2046

Image of Christ Not Made by Hands

Fasting: FastVigilJulian: August 16

Epistle

2 Corinthians 3.4-11

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4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:Log in to add notes

5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;Log in to add notes

6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.Log in to add notes

7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:Log in to add notes

8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?Log in to add notes

9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.Log in to add notes

10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.Log in to add notes

11For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.Log in to add notes

Epistle — Image

Colossians 1.12-18

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12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:Log in to add notes

13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:Log in to add notes

14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:Log in to add notes

15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:Log in to add notes

16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:Log in to add notes

17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.Log in to add notes

18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 23.29-39

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29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,Log in to add notes

30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.Log in to add notes

31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.Log in to add notes

32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.Log in to add notes

33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?Log in to add notes

34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:Log in to add notes

35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.Log in to add notes

36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.Log in to add notes

37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!Log in to add notes

38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.Log in to add notes

39For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.Log in to add notes

Gospel — Image

Luke 9.51-56; Luke 10.22-24

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51And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,Log in to add notes

52And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.Log in to add notes

53And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.Log in to add notes

54And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?Log in to add notes

55But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.Log in to add notes

56For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.Log in to add notes

22All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.Log in to add notes

23And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:Log in to add notes

24For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.Log in to add notes