Daily Scripture Reading for the
Liturgical Calendar Year
(beginning the 1st Sunday of Advent)

August 27, 2008

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The Lectionary According to the Christian Seasons

2 Thessalonians 3

1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified, even as it is with you, 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all men have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep you from evil. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that ye both do, and will do, the things which we command you. 5 And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. 

6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother who walketh disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how ye ought to follow us, for we did not behave disorderly among you; 8 neither did we eat any man's bread for naught, but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you, 9 not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us. 10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat. 11 For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now those who are such, we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing. 14 And if any man obey not our word in this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 

16 Now the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all. 

17 This salutation of Paul is with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write. 

18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 

Amen. 

Psalm 128

1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD, 
that walketh in His ways. 
2 For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands; 
happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. 
3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house, thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 
4 Behold that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. 

5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion, 
and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. 
6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, 
and peace upon Israel. 

Words of Worship - 1 John 2:5

But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him.

Matthew 23:27-32

27 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so, ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, 30 and say, `If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' 31 Therefore ye are witnesses against yourselves, that ye are the children of them that killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Words of Wisdom - Wisdom of Solomon 14:12-14

For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life. For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever. For by the vainglory of men they entered into the world, and therefore shall they come shortly to an end.

Jesus Speaks Morals & Values - Matthew 18:7-8
         (see UniversalJesusSpeaks.info for more information)

"Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must happen that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh. Therefore if thy hand or thy foot cause thee to fall, cut them off and cast them from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.