Wednesday 30 October 2030

1Children, obey your parents in the Lord,for this is right.2“Honor your father and mother,”which is the first commandment with a promise:3“that it may be well with you,and you may live long on the earth.”

4You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath,but nurture them in the disciplineand instruction of the Lord.

5Servants, be obedient to thosewho according to the flesh are your masters,with fear and trembling,in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,6not in the way of service only when eyes are on you,as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ,doing the will of God from the heart,7with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,8knowing that whatever good thing each one does,he will receive the same good again from the Lord,whether he is bound or free.

9You masters, do the same things to them,and give up threatening,knowing that he who is both their Masterand yours is in heaven,and there is no partiality with him.

10All your works will give thanks to you, Lord.Your saints will extol you.11They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,and talk about your power,

12to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.Your dominion endures throughout all generations.

13The Lord is faithful in all his words,and loving in all his deeds.14The Lord upholds all who fall,and raises up all those who are bowed down.

22He went on his way through cities and villages,teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.23One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?”

He said to them,24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door,for many, I tell you,will seek to enter in and will not be able.25When once the master of the house has risen upand has shut the door,and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door,saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’then he will answer and tell you,‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’26Then you will begin to say,‘We ate and drank in your presence,and you taught in our streets.’27He will say, ‘I tell you,I don’t know where you come from.Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’28There will be weeping and gnashing of teethwhen you see Abraham,Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom,and yourselves being thrown outside.29They will come from the east,west, north, and south,and will sit down in God’s Kingdom.30Behold, there are some who are last who will be first,and there are some who are first who will be last.”