June 27, 2014

Reading

Postulasagan 7: 6-11

7:6 Þá sagði Guð honum að afkvæmi hans yrðu landnámsmaður í framandi landi, og að þeir myndu leggja þá undir sig, og fara illa með þá, í fjögur hundruð ár.

7:7 „Og þjóðinni sem þeir munu þjóna, Ég mun dæma,“ sagði Drottinn. 'Og eftir þessa hluti, þeir skulu fara og þjóna mér á þessum stað.'

7:8 Og hann gaf honum sáttmála um umskurnina. Og svo varð hann þunginn Ísak og umskar hann á áttunda degi. Og Ísak gat Jakob, og Jakob, ættfeðrarnir tólf.

7:9 Og ættfeðrarnir, að vera öfundsjúkur, seldi Jósef til Egyptalands. En Guð var með honum.

7:10 Og hann bjargaði honum úr öllum þrengingum hans. Og hann gaf honum náð og visku í augum Faraós, konungur Egyptalands. Og hann skipaði hann landstjóra yfir Egyptalandi og yfir öllu húsi hans.

7:11 Þá varð hungursneyð um allt Egyptaland og Kanaan, og mikil þrenging. Og feður okkar fundu ekki mat.

Second Reading

Letter of John 4: 7-16

4:7 Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

4:8 Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.

4:9 The love of God was made apparent to us in this way: that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

4:10 In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.

4:11 Most beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

4:12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

4:13 Á þennan hátt, we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he has given to us from his Spirit.

4:14 And we have seen, and we testify, that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

4:15 Whoever has confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.

Gospel

Matthías 11: 25-30

11:25 At that time, Jesus responded and said: “I acknowledge you, Faðir, Lord of Heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and have revealed them to little ones.

11:26 Já, Faðir, for this was pleasing before you.

11:27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.

11:28 Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.

11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.

11:30 For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light.”