Wednesday 9 September 2037

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.6For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.7You also once walked in those, when you lived in them,8but now you must put them all away:anger, wrath, malice,slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.9Don’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.

2Every day I will praise you.I will extol your name forever and ever.3Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised!His greatness is unsearchable.

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.The Lord is faithful in all his words,and loving in all his deeds.

20He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said:

“Blessed are you who are poor,for God’s Kingdom is yours.21Blessed are you who hunger now,for you will be filled.Blessed are you who weep now,for you will laugh.22Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.23Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.24“But woe to you who are rich!For you have received your consolation.25Woe to you, you who are full now,for you will be hungry.Woe to you who laugh now,for you will mourn and weep.26Woe, when men speak well of you,for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.