September 15, 2013, Second Reading

^{First Timothy 1:12-17}

^{12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength. By calling me into his service he has judged me trustworthy,}

^{13 even though I used to be a blasphemer and a persecutor and contemptuous. Mercy, however, was shown me, because while I lacked faith I acted in ignorance;}

^{14 but the grace of our Lord filled me with faith and with the love that is in Christ Jesus.}

^{15 Here is a saying that you can rely on and nobody should doubt: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I myself am the greatest of them;}

^{16 and if mercy has been shown to me, it is because Jesus Christ meant to make me the leading example of his inexhaustible patience for all the other people who were later to trust in him for eternal life.}

^{17 To the eternal King, the undying, invisible and only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.}