Daily Readings for Tuesday January 09,2018

Season of Epiphany

8	The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men.
9	But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile.
10	As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him,
11	knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.

23	And some one said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them,
24	"Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
25	When once the householder has risen up and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, `Lord, open to us.' He will answer you, `I do not know where you come from.'
26	Then you will begin to say, `We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'
27	But he will say, `I tell you, I do not know where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity!'
28	There you will weep and gnash your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves thrust out.
29	And men will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God.
30	And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."