FIRST
READING: Ephesians
4: 32 -- 5:
1 - 8
32
and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as
God in Christ forgave you.
1
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
2
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a
fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
3
But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be
named among you, as is fitting among saints.
4
Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not
fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving.
5
Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one who is
covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom
of Christ and of God.
6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these
things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
7
Therefore do not associate with them,
8
for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk
as children of light.
PSALM:
Psalms 1:
1 - 4, 6
1
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor
stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2
but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he
meditates day and night.
3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit
in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he
prospers.
4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
6
for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the
wicked will perish.
GOSPEL:
Luke 13:
10 - 17
10
Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
11
And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen
years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.
12
And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman,
you are freed from your infirmity."
13
And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made
straight, and she praised God.
14
But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on
the sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which
work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on
the sabbath day."
15
Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of
you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead
it away to water it?
16
And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for
eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?"
17
As he said this, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the
people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
