June 18, 2015

Reading

Second Letter to the Corinthians 11: 1- 11

11:1 I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me.

11:2 For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

11:3 But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ.

11:4 For if anyone arrives preaching another Christ, one whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, one whom you have not received; or another Gospel, one which you have not been given: you might permit him to guide you.

11:5 For I consider that I have done nothing less than the great Apostles.

11:6 For although I may be unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But, in all things, we have been made manifest to you.

11:7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you would be exalted? For I preached the Gospel of God to you freely.

11:8 I have taken from other churches, receiving a stipend from them to the benefit of your ministry.

11:9 And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.

11:10 The truth of Christ is in me, and so this glorying shall not be broken away from me in the regions of Achaia.

11:11 Why so? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do.

Gospel

The Holy Gospel According to Matthew    6: 7-15

6:7 And when praying, do not choose many words, as the pagans do. For they think that by their excess of words they might be heeded.
6:8 Therefore, do not choose to imitate them. For your Father knows what your needs may be, even before you ask him.
6:9 Therefore, you shall pray in this way: Our Father, who is in heaven: May your name be kept holy.
6:10 May your kingdom come. May your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth.
6:11 Give us this day our life-sustaining bread.
6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But free us from evil. Amen.
6:14 For if you will forgive men their sins, your heavenly Father also will forgive you your offenses.
6:15 But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your sins.

 

 


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