Daily Readings for Wednesday July 18,2018
Season of Kaitha
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Reading 3, 2 Cor 4:14-5:1 : Eternal building from God
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knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. |
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For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. |
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So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. |
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For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, |
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because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. |
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For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. |
Gospel, Jn 12:23-28 : Grain of wheat should fall into the earth and die
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And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified. |
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Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. |
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He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. |
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If any one serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also; if any one serves me, the Father will honor him. |
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"Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? `Father, save me from this hour'? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour. |
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Father, glorify thy name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." |
