FIRST
READING: Exodus
20: 1 - 17
1
And the Lord spoke all these words:
2
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage.
3
Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
4
Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of
any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of
those things that are in the waters under the earth.
5
Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God,
mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
6
And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
7
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord
his God in vain.
8
Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
9
Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
10
But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt
do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that
is within thy gates.
11
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all
things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the
Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
12
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon
the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
13
Thou shalt not kill.
14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15
Thou shalt not steal.
16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither shalt thou desire
his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass,
nor any thing that is his.
PSALM:
Psalms 19:
8 - 11
8
The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of
the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.
9
The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the commandment
of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes.
10
The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the
judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.
11
More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and sweeter
than honey and the honeycomb.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 13:
18 - 23
18
Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.
19
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it
not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was
sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.
20
And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth
the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy.
21
Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when
there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is
presently scandalized.
22
And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the
word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches
choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
23
But he that received the seed upon good ground, is he that heareth
the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one
an hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.
