Daily Readings for Tuesday January 15,2013
Reading 3, 1 Cor 12:12-18 : Different parts of one body
1 Corinthians 12
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12 |
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. |
13 |
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free -- and all were made to drink of one Spirit. |
14 |
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. |
15 |
If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. |
16 |
And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. |
17 |
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? |
18 |
But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. |
Gospel, Jn 15:1-10 : Abide in my love
John 15
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"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. |
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Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. |
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You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. |
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. |
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I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. |
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If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. |
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If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. |
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By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. |
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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. |
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If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. |
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