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XVI Pentecost |
Lesson
Life as the Ungodly See It
Error of the Wicked
Epistle
Two Kinds of Wisdom
Gospel
Jesus Again Foretells His Death and Resurrection
Who Is the Greatest?
If any one would be first, he must be
last... |
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Lesson |
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Wisdom 1:16-2:1(6-11)12-22 |
16: But ungodly men by their words and deeds summoned death; considering him
a friend, they pined away, and they made a covenant with him, because they
are fit to belong to his party.
1: For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, "Short and sorrowful
is our life, and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end, and no one
has been known to return from Hades.
[ 6: "Come, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that exist, and make use
of the creation to the full as in youth.
7: Let us take our fill of costly wine and perfumes, and let no flower of
spring pass by us.
8: Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
9: Let none of us fail to share in our revelry, everywhere let us leave
signs of enjoyment, because this is our portion, and this our lot.
10: Let us oppress the righteous poor man; let us not spare the widow nor
regard the gray hairs of the aged.
11: But let our might be our law of right, for what is weak proves itself to
be useless. ]
12: "Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to
us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and
accuses us of sins against our training.
13: He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the
Lord.
14: He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
15: the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is
unlike that of others, and his ways are strange.
16: We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as
unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God
is his father.
17: Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at
the end of his life;
18: for if the righteous man is God's son, he will help him, and will
deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
19: Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle
he is, and make trial of his forbearance.
20: Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says,
he will be protected."
21: Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness
blinded them,
22: and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hope for the wages
of holiness, nor discern the prize for blameless souls; |
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Epistle |
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James 3:16-4:6 |
16: For where jealousy
and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
17: But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to
reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.
18: And the harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make
peace.
1: What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your
passions that are at war in your members?
2: You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain;
so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3: You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your
passions.
4: Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is
enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes
himself an enemy of God.
5: Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, "He yearns
jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us"?
6: But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but
gives grace to the humble." |
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Gospel |
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Mark 9:30-37 |
30: They went on from
there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it;
31: for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of man will
be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is
killed, after three days he will rise."
32: But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.
33: And they came to Caper'na-um; and when he was in the house he asked
them, "What were you discussing on the way?"
34: But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another
who was the greatest.
35: And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any one
would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
36: And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in
his arms, he said to them,
37: "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever
receives me, receives not me but him who sent me." |
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