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The Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany |
Jesus Teaches and Heals
Blessing and Woes |
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Lesson -
Jeremiah 17:5-10 |
Judah's Sin and Punishment
Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh
his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He
shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in
an uninhabited salt land. "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the
stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves
remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not
cease to bear fruit." The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can
understand it? "I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man
according to his ways, according to the fruit of his
doings."
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Epistle -
1 Corinthians 15:12-20 |
The Resurrection of the Dead
Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you
say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been
raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your
faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God
that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it
is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in
your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to
be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of
those who have fallen asleep.
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Gospel -
Luke 6:17-26 |
Jesus Teaches and Heals
And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great
crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people
from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to
hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came forth from him and
healed them all.
Blessing and Woes
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: "Blessed are you
poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. "Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. "Blessed
are you that weep now, for you shall laugh. "Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile
you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of
the Son of man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great
in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. "But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation. "Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger. "Woe to you that
laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. "Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to
the false prophets.
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