May 24, 2013
Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
We hope that today is a good day.
Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.
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Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
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★Zondervan King James Audio Bible
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Gospel: Mark 10:1-12
1 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
3 He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
4 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.☆Genesis 1:27
7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
8 and the two will become one flesh,☆Genesis 2:24 so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."
☆10:6: Genesis 1:27
☆10:8: Genesis 2:24
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Sirach 6:5-17
5 † Gr. A sweet throat. Sweet words will multiply ‡ Gr. his. a man's friends;
And a fair-speaking tongue will multiply courtesies.
6 Let those that are at peace with you be many;
But your counselors one of a thousand.
7 If you would get you a friend, get him § Or, in the time of trial by proving,
And be not in haste to trust him.
8 For there is a friend that is so for his own occasion;
And he will not continue in the day of your affliction.
9 And there is a friend that turns to enmity;
And he will discover strife to your reproach.
10 And there is a friend that is a companion at the table;
And he will not continue in the day of your affliction.
11 And in your prosperity he will be as yourself,
And will be bold over your servants:
12 If you shall be brought low, he will be against you,
And will hide himself from your face.
13 Separate yourself from your enemies;
And beware of your friends.
14 A faithful friend is a strong ** Or, covert defence;
And he that has found him has found a treasure.
15 There is nothing that can be taken in exchange for a faithful friend;
And his excellency is beyond †† Gr. weight. price.
16 A faithful friend is a medicine of life;
And they that fear the Lord shall find him.
17 He that fears the Lord directs his friendship aright;
For as he is, so is his neighbor also.
†6:5: Gr. A sweet throat.
‡6:5: Gr. his.
§6:7: Or, in the time of trial
**6:14: Or, covert
††6:15: Gr. weight.
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1 Corinthians (12:31b-13:13)
31b Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain?these three. The greatest of these is love.
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