Daily Readings for Tuesday January 15,2013

Season of Epiphany

1 Corinthians 12
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.

John 15
1	"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
2	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.
3	You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you.
4	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.
5	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.
6	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.
7	If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
8	By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.
9	As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
10	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.