Daily Readings for Thursday February 22,2018

Season of Lent

1	Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
2	Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God.
3	What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
4	By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written, "That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and prevail when thou art judged."
5	But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
6	By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
7	But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
8	And why not do evil that good may come? -- as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

33	"Again you have heard that it was said to the men of old, `You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.'
34	But I say to you, Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
35	or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
36	And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.
37	Let what you say be simply `Yes' or `No'; anything more than this comes from evil.