FIRST
READING: Hebrews
3: 7 - 14
7
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, when you hear his
voice,
8
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing
in the wilderness,
9
where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty
years.
10
Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always
go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.'
11
As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'"
12
Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving
heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today,
" that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14
For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to
the end.
PSALM:
Psalms 95:
6 - 11
6
O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD,
our Maker!
7
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the
sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice!
8
Harden not your hearts, as at Mer'ibah, as on the day at Massah in
the wilderness,
9
when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had
seen my work.
10
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a
people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways."
11
Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.
GOSPEL:
Mark 1:
40 - 45
40
And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, "If
you will, you can make me clean."
41
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said
to him, "I will; be clean."
42
And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.
43
And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once,
44
and said to him, "See that you say nothing to any one; but go,
show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses
commanded, for a proof to the people."
45
But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the
news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out
in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
