Tuesday, January 13, 2065

Leavetaking of the Nativity

Fasting: No fastJulian: December 31

Epistle

Hebrews 4.1-13

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1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.Log in to add notes

2For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.Log in to add notes

3For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.Log in to add notes

4For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.Log in to add notes

5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.Log in to add notes

6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:Log in to add notes

7Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.Log in to add notes

8For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.Log in to add notes

9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.Log in to add notes

10For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.Log in to add notes

11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.Log in to add notes

12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.Log in to add notes

13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Mark 12.18-27

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18Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,Log in to add notes

19Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.Log in to add notes

20Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.Log in to add notes

21And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.Log in to add notes

22And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.Log in to add notes

23In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.Log in to add notes

24And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?Log in to add notes

25For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.Log in to add notes

26And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?Log in to add notes

27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.Log in to add notes