Tuesday 26 February 2030

1Where do wars and fightings among you come from?Don’t they come from your pleasuresthat war in your members?2You lust, and don’t have.You murder and covet, and can’t obtain.You fight and make war.You don’t have, because you don’t ask.3You ask, and don’t receive,because you ask with wrong motives,so that you may spend it on your pleasures.4You adulterers and adulteresses,don’t you knowthat friendship with the world is hostility toward God?Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain,“The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?6But he gives more grace.Therefore it says,“God resists the proud,but gives grace to the humble.”7Be subject therefore to God.Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.Cleanse your hands, you sinners.Purify your hearts, you double-minded.9Lament, mourn, and weep.Let your laughter be turned to mourningand your joy to gloom.10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord,and he will exalt you.

7I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove!Then I would fly away, and be at rest.8Behold, then I would wander far off.I would lodge in the wilderness.”

9“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”10Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language,

10for I have seen violence and strife in the city.11Day and night they prowl around on its walls.Malice and abuse are also within her.

23Cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you.He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

30They went out from there and passed through Galilee.He didn’t want anyone to know it,31for he was teaching his disciples,and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men,and they will kill him;and when he is killed,on the third day he will rise again.”

32But they didn’t understand the saying,and were afraid to ask him.

33He came to Capernaum,and when he was in the house he asked them,“What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

34But they were silent,for they had disputed with one another on the way aboutwho was the greatest.

35He sat down and called the twelve;and he said to them,“If any man wants to be first,he shall be last of all,and servant of all.”36He took a little child and set him in the middle of them.Taking him in his arms, he said to them,37“Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me;and whoever receives me,doesn’t receive me,but him who sent me.”