Meyi 8, 2015

Ukufunda

Izenzo Zabaphostoli 15: 22-31

15:22	Kwase kubajabulisa abaPhostoli nabadala, neBandla lonke, ukukhetha amadoda phakathi kwabo, nokuthuma e-Antiyokiya, kanye noPawulu noBarnaba, kanye noJuda, othiwa nguBarsaba, kanye noSila, abavelele phakathi kwabazalwane,
15:23	okulotshwe ngezandla zabo: “Abaphostoli nabadala, bazalwane, kwabase-Antiyokiya naseSiriya naseKhilikhiya, abazalwane kwabezizwe, imikhonzo.
15:24	Njengoba sesizwile ukuthi abanye, ephuma phakathi kwethu, nginihluphile ngamazwi, echitha imiphefumulo yenu, esingamyalanga ngakho,
15:25	kwasijabulisa, ukuqoqwa ndawonye, ukukhetha amadoda nokubathumela kini, kanye nabathandiweyo bethu oBarnaba noPawulu:
15:26	amadoda anikele ukuphila kwawo ngenxa yegama leNkosi yethu uJesu Kristu.
15:27	Ngakho-ke, sithumile oJudasi noSila, abazokwenza nabo ngokwabo, ngezwi elikhulunywayo, qinisa kini izinto ezifanayo.
15:28	Ngokuba kubonakale kukuhle kuMoya oNgcwele nakithi ukuba singabeki mthwalo phezu kwenu, ngaphandle kwalezi zinto ezidingekayo:
15:29	ukuthi nidede ezintweni ezihlatshelwe izithombe, nasegazini, nakulokho osekuncishwe umoya, nasebufebeni. niyokwenza kahle ngokuzigcina kulezi zinto. Hamba kahle.”
15:30	Manje, esexoshiwe, behlela e-Antiyokiya. Nokubuthela isixuku, bayihambisa incwadi.
15:31	Kwathi sebeyifundile, bajabula ngalenduduzo.

Ivangeli

IVangeli Elingcwele NgokukaJohane 15: 12-17

15:12	This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
15:13	No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
15:14	You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.
15:15	I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
15:16	You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.
15:17	This I command you: that you love one another.