Daily Readings for Saturday February 16,2019

Season of Epiphany

50	I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51	Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52	in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
53	For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
54	When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55	"O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?"
56	The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57	But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1	Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples,
2	"The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat;
3	so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice.
4	They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
5	They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,
6	and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
7	and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men.
8	But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren.
9	And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
10	Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ.
11	He who is greatest among you shall be your servant;
12	whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.