Sunday 2 January 2022

1Wisdom will praise her own soul,and will proclaim her glory in the midst of her people.2She will open her mouth in the congregation of the Most High,and proclaim her glory in the presence of his power.· · · verses 3–7 are not read8Then the Creator of all things gave me a command.He who created me made my tent to rest,and said, ‘Let your dwelling be in Jacob,and your inheritance in Israel.’9He created me from the beginning, before the ages.For all ages, I will not cease to exist.10In the holy tabernacle, I ministered before him.So I was established in Zion.11In the beloved city, likewise he gave me rest.In Jerusalem was my domain.12I took root in a people that was honored,even in the portion of the Lord’s own inheritance.

12Praise the Lord, Jerusalem!Praise your God, Zion!13For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.He has blessed your children within you.

14He makes peace in your borders.He fills you with the finest of the wheat.15He sends out his commandment to the earth.His word runs very swiftly.

19He shows his word to Jacob,his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.20He has not done this for just any nation.They don’t know his ordinances.Praise the Lord!

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,that we would be holyand without defect before him in love,5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself,according to the good pleasure of his desire,6to the praise of the glory of his grace,by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.

· · · verses 7–14 are not read15For this cause I also,having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among youand the love which you have toward all the saints,16don’t cease to give thanks for you,making mention of you in my prayers,17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,the Father of glory,may give to you a spirit of wisdomand revelation in the knowledge of him,18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,that you may know what is the hope of his calling,and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

1In the beginning was the Word,and the Word was with God,and the Word was God.2The same was in the beginning with God.3All things were made through him.Without him, nothing was made that has been made.4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.5The light shines in the darkness,and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

6There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.7The same came as a witness,that he might testify about the light,that all might believe through him.8He was not the light,but was sent that he might testify about the light.9The true lightthat enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

10He was in the world,and the world was made through him,and the world didn’t recognize him.11He came to his own,and those who were his own didn’t receive him.12But as many as received him,to them he gave the right to become God’s children,to those who believe in his name:13who were born, not of blood,nor of the will of the flesh,nor of the will of man, but of God.

14The Word became flesh and lived among us.We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father,full of grace and truth.15John testified about him.He cried out, saying,“This was he of whom I said,‘He who comes after me has surpassed me,for he was before me.’”16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.17For the law was given through Moses.Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.18No one has seen God at any time.The only born Son,who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.