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For I endure scorn for your sake,
and shame covers my face.
I am a foreigner to my own family,
a stranger to my own mother’s children;

When you were dead in your sins
and in the uncircumcision of your flesh,
God made you alive with Christ.
He forgave us all our sins,
having canceled the charge
of our legal indebtedness,
he has taken it away,
nailing it to the cross.

And through him to reconcile to himself all things,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.
Whoever comes to me will never go hungry,
and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.

What good will it be for someone
to gain the whole world,
yet forfeit their soul?
Or what can anyone give
in exchange for their soul?

Enter through the narrow gate.
For wide is the gate and broad is the road
that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life,
and only a few find it.

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine
and puts them into practice is like a wise man
who built his house on the rock.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
for righteousness, for they will be filled.

He provides food for the cattle
and for the young ravens when they call.

It is I who made the earth
and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.

Blessed is the one who does not walk
in step with the wickedor
stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.

Blessed rather are those
who hear the word of God
and obey it.

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets
at many times and in various ways, but in these last days
he has spoken to us by his Son.

Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus
the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.

And Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.

This is what the Lord says - Israel’s King
and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty:
I am the first and I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times.

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

All the nations may walk
in the name of their gods,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord
our God for ever and ever.