October 27, 2014

Reading

Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians    4: 32- 5: 8

4:32	And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

5:1	Therefore, as most beloved sons, be imitators of God.
5:2	And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
5:3	But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,
5:4	nor any indecent, or foolish, or abusive talk, for this is without purpose; but instead, give thanks.
5:5	For know and understand this: no one who is a fornicator, or lustful, or rapacious (for these are a kind of service to idols) holds an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
5:6	Let no one seduce you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God was sent upon the sons of unbelief.
5:7	Therefore, do not choose to become participants with them.
5:8	For you were darkness, in times past, but now you are light, in the Lord. So then, walk as sons of the light.

Gospel

Luke 13: 10-17

13:10 Now he was teaching in their synagogue on the Sabbaths.

13:11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. And she was bent over; and she was unable to look upwards at all.

13:12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to himself, and he said to her, “Woman, you are released from your infirmity.”

13:13 And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was straightened, and she glorified God.

13:14 Then, as a result, the ruler of the synagogue became angry that Jesus had cured on the Sabbath, and he said to the crowd: “There are six days on which you ought to work. Therefore, come and be cured on those, and not on the day of the Sabbath.”

13:15 Then the Lord said to him in response: “You hypocrites! Does not each one of you, on the Sabbath, release his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it to water?

13:16 So then, should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for lo these eighteen years, be released from this restraint on the day of the Sabbath?”

13:17 And as he was saying these things, all his adversaries were ashamed. And all the people rejoiced in everything that was being done gloriously by him.