October 19, 2014

閱讀

 

以賽亞書 45: 1, 4-6

 

45:1Thus says the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I hold, so that I may subjugate the nations before his face, and I may turn the backs of kings, and I may open the doors before him, and so that the gates will not be shut

45:4For the sake of Jacob, my servant, and Israel, my elect, I have even called you by your name. I have taken you up, 而你還不認識我.

45:5I am the Lord, and there is no one else. There is no god beside me. I girded you, 而你還不認識我.

45:6So may those who are from the rising of the sun, and those who are from its setting, know that there is no one beside me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

 

二讀

 

First Thessalonians 1: 1-5

 

1:1保羅、西爾瓦努斯和提摩太, 到帖撒羅尼迦教會, in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:2恩典與平安歸於你. We give thanks to God always for all of you, keeping the memory of you in our prayers without ceasing,

1:3remembering your work of faith, and hardship, and charity, and enduring hope, in our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father.

1:4For we know, 兄弟, 上帝所愛, of your election.

1:5For our Gospel has not been among you in word alone, but also in virtue, and in the Holy Spirit, and with a great fullness, in the same manner as you know we have acted among you for your sake.

 

Gospel

 

馬修 22: 15-21

 

2:15 Then the Pharisees, 出去, took counsel as to how they might entrap him in speech.

22:16 And they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, 說: “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and that you teach the way of God in truth, and that the influence of others is nothing to you. For you do not consider the reputation of men.

22:17 所以, tell us, how does it seem to you? Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar, or not?”

22:18 But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, 說: “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

22:19 Show me the coin of the census tax.” And they offered him a denarius.

22:20 And Jesus said to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?”

22:21 They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Then render to Caesar what is of Caesar; and to God what is of God.”