Daily Readings for Wednesday January 23,2019
Reading 3, 2 Cor 6:4-10 : Faithful servant of Jesus
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but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, |
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beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; |
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by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, |
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truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; |
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in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; |
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as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; |
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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. |
Gospel, Lk 3:15-18 : I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals
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As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ, |
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John answered them all, "I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. |
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His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." |
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So, with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people. |
