September 6, 2014

Reading

First Corinthians 4: 6-15

 

4:6 And so, brothers, I have presented these things in myself and in Apollo, for your sakes, so that you may learn, through us, that no one should be inflated against one person and for another, not beyond what has been written.

4:7 For what distinguishes you from another? And what do you have that you have not received? But if you have received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?

4:8 So, now you have been filled, and now you have been made wealthy, as if to reign without us? But I wish that you would reign, so that we, too, might reign with you!

4:9 For I think that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for men.

 

4:10 So we are fools because of Christ, but you are discerning in Christ? We are weak, but you are strong? You are noble, but we are ignoble?

 

4:11 Even to this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and repeatedly beaten, and we are unsteady.

 

4:12 And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.

 

4:13 We are cursed, and so we pray. We have become like the refuse of this world, like the reside of everything, even until now.

 

4:14 I am not writing these things in order to confound you, but in order to admonish you, as my dearest sons.

 

4:15 For you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not so many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you.

 

Gospel

Luke 6: 1-5

 

6:1 Now it happened that, on the second first Sabbath, as he passed through the grain field, his disciples were separating the ears of grain and eating them, by rubbing them in their hands.

 

6:2 Then certain Pharisees said to them, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?”

 

6:3 And responding to them, Jesus said: “Have you not read this, what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him?

 

6:4 How he entered into the house of God, and took the bread of the Presence, and ate it, and gave it to those who were with him, though it is not lawful for anyone to eat it, except the priests alone?”

 

6:5 And he said to them, “For the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”