Hebrews 3: 7- 14
| 3:7 | Because of this, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “If today you hear his voice, |
| 3:8 | harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, the very day of temptation, in the desert, |
| 3:9 | where your fathers tested me, even though they had seen and examined my works for forty years. |
| 3:10 | For this reason, I was enraged against this generation, and I said: They always wander astray in heart. For they have not known my ways. |
| 3:11 | So it is as I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!” |
| 3:12 | Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside from the living God. |
| 3:13 | Instead, exhort one another every day, while it is still called ‘today,’ so that none of you may become hardened through the falseness of sin. |
| 3:14 | For we have been made participants in Christ. This is only so, if we firmly retain the beginning of his substance, even unto the end. |
Mark 1: 40- 45
1:40 And a leper came to him, begging him. And kneeling down, he said to him, “If you are willing, you are able to cleanse me.”
1:41 Then Jesus, taking pity on him, reached out his hand. And touching him, he said to him: “I am willing. Be cleansed.”
1:42 And after he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
1:43 And he admonished him, and he promptly sent him away.
1:44 And he said to him: “See to it that you tell no one. But go and show yourself to the high priest, and offer for your cleansing that which Moses instructed, as a testimony for them.”
1:45 But having departed, he began to preach and to disseminate the word, so that he was no longer able to openly enter a city, but had to remain outside, in deserted places. And they were gathered to him from every direction.