Wednesday 3 September 2042

1Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual,but as to fleshly,as to babies in Christ.2I fed you with milk,not with solid food,for you weren’t yet ready.Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,3for you are still fleshly.For insofar as there is jealousy,strife, and factions among you,aren’t you fleshly,and don’t you walk in the ways of men?4For when one says,“I follow Paul,” and another,“I follow Apollos,”aren’t you fleshly?

5Who then is Apollos,and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed,and each as the Lord gave to him?6I planted. Apollos watered.But God gave the increase.7So then neither he who plants is anything,nor he who waters,but God who gives the increase.8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same,but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.9For we are God’s fellow workers.You are God’s farming, God’s building.

12Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.13The Lord looks from heaven.He sees all the sons of men.

14From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,15he who fashions all of their hearts;and he considers all of their works.

20Our soul has waited for the Lord.He is our help and our shield.21For our heart rejoices in him,because we have trusted in his holy name.

38He rose up from the synagogueand entered into Simon’s house.Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever,and they begged him to help her.39He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her.Immediately she rose up and served them.40When the sun was setting,all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him;and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.41Demons also came out of many,crying out and saying,“You are the Christ, the Son of God!”Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak,because they knew that he was the Christ.

42When it was day, he departedand went into an uninhabited placeand the multitudes looked for him,and came to him, and held on to him,so that he wouldn’t go away from them.43But he said to them,“I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also.For this reason I have been sent.”44He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.