Wednesday 18 May 2016

13Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow let’s go into this cityand spend a year there,trade, and make a profit.”14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow.For what is your life?For you are a vapor that appears for a little timeand then vanishes away.15For you ought to say,“If the Lord wills,we will both live,and do this or that.”16But now you glory in your boasting.All such boasting is evil.17To him therefore who knows to do goodand doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

2Hear this, all you peoples.Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,3both low and high,rich and poor together.

6Why should I fear in the days of evil,when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?7Those who trust in their wealth,and boast in the multitude of their riches—

8none of them can by any means redeem his brother,nor give God a ransom for him.9For the redemption of their life is costly,no payment is ever enough,10that he should live on forever,that he should not see corruption.

11For he sees that wise men die;likewise the fool and the senseless perish,and leave their wealth to others.

38John said to him, “Teacher,we saw someonewho doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name;and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”

39But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him,for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my nameand be able quickly to speak evil of me.40For whoever is not against us is on our side.