Sunday 5 August 2040

2“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher;“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”· · · some verses are not read21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom,with knowledge, and with skillfulness;yet he shall leave it for his portion to a manwho has not labored for it.This also is vanity and a great evil.22For what does a man have of all his laborand of the striving of his heart,in which he labors under the sun?23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief;yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest.This also is vanity.

3You turn man to destruction, saying,“Return, you children of men.”4For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,like a watch in the night.

5You sweep them away as they sleep.In the morning they sprout like new grass.6In the morning it sprouts and springs up.By evening, it is withered and dry.

12So teach us to count our days,that we may gain a heart of wisdom.13Relent, Lord!How long?Have compassion on your servants!

14Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.17Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us.Establish the work of our hands for us.Yes, establish the work of our hands.

1If then you were raised together with Christ,seek the things that are above,where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.2Set your mind on the things that are above,not on the things that are on the earth.3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.4When Christ, our life,is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

5Put to death therefore your memberswhich are on the earth:sexual immorality,uncleanness, depraved passion,evil desire, and covetousness,which is idolatry.· · · verses 6–8 are not read9Don’t lie to one another,seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,10and have put on the new man,who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,11where there can’t be Greek and Jew,circumcision and uncircumcision,barbarian, Scythian,bondservant, or free person;but Christ is all, and in all.

13One of the multitude said to him,“Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

14But he said to him,“Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”15He said to them, “Beware!Keep yourselves from covetousness,for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the thingswhich he possesses.”

16He spoke a parable to them,saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.17He reasoned within himself,saying, ‘What will I do,because I don’t have room to store my crops?’18He said, ‘This is what I will do.I will pull down my barns,build bigger ones,and there I will store all my grain and my goods.19I will tell my soul,“Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years.Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

20“But God said to him,‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you.The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’21So is he who lays up treasure for himself,and is not rich toward God.”