Sunday 3 June 2018

12“Observe the Sabbath day,to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.13You shall labor six days, and do all your work;14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God,in which you shall not do any work—neither you, nor your son,nor your daughter,nor your male servant,nor your female servant,nor your ox, nor your donkey,nor any of your livestock,nor your stranger who is within your gates;that your male servantand your female servant may rest as well as you.15You shall rememberthat you were a servant in the land of Egypt,and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty handand by an outstretched arm.Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

3Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,the pleasant lyre with the harp.4Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,at the full moon, on our feast day.

5For it is a statute for Israel,an ordinance of the God of Jacob.6He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,when he went out over the land of Egypt,I heard a language that I didn’t know.

7“I removed his shoulder from the burden.His hands were freed from the basket.8You called in trouble, and I delivered you.I answered you in the secret place of thunder.I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

10There shall be no strange god in you,neither shall you worship any foreign god.11I am the Lord, your God,who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

6seeing it is God who said,“Light will shine out of darkness,”who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

7But we have this treasure in clay vessels,that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of Godand not from ourselves.8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed;perplexed, yet not to despair;9pursued, yet not forsaken;struck down, yet not destroyed;10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus,that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake,that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

23He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields;and his disciples began,as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.24The Pharisees said to him,“Behold, why do they do thatwhich is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”

25He said to them, “Did you never read what David didwhen he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?26How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest,and ate the show bread,which is not lawful to eat except for the priests,and gave also to those who were with him?”

27He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man,not man for the Sabbath.28Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

1He entered again into the synagogue,and there was a man there whose hand was withered.2They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day,that they might accuse him.3He said to the man whose hand was withered, “Stand up.”4He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm?To save a life or to kill?”But they were silent.5When he had looked around at them with anger,being grieved at the hardening of their hearts,he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.”He stretched it out,and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.6The Pharisees went out,and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him,how they might destroy him.