[Propertalk] FW: The readings for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Jan. 28

[Joe Parrish]

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Forwarded from http://satucket.com/lectionary/

 

The following are the readings for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany,
Jan. 28, according to the Revised Common (RCL), Episcopal (ECUSA), Roman
Catholic, Canadian, and Church of England (CofE) Lectionaries. All readings
are taken from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible. The
ECUSA, C of E and Canadian lectionaries are identical to the RCL this week
unless noted otherwise.

 

 

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NEW TESTAMENT:  1 Corinthians 8: 1 - 13   (RCL)

 

1Cor 8:1 (NRSV) Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that "all
of us possess knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 Anyone
who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; 3
but anyone who loves God is known by him. 

4 Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "no idol in
the world really exists," and that "there is no God but one." 5 Indeed, even
though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth--as in fact there
are many gods and many lords-- 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father,
from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom are all things and through whom we exist. 

7 It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have
become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they
eat as food offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is
defiled. 8 "Food will not bring us close to God." We are no worse off if we
do not eat, and no better off if we do. 9 But take care that this liberty of
yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if
others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol,
might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point
of eating food sacrificed to idols? 11 So by your knowledge those weak
believers for whom Christ died are destroyed. 12 But when you thus sin
against members of your family, and wound their conscience when it is weak,
you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I
will never eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall. 

 

 

1 Corinthians 7: 32 - 35   (Roman Catholic)

 

1Cor 7:32 (NRSV) I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is
anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord; 33 but the
married man is anxious about the affairs of the world, how to please his
wife, 34 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman and the
virgin are anxious about the affairs of the Lord, so that they may be holy
in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about the affairs of
the world, how to please her husband. 35 I say this for your own benefit,
not to put any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and unhindered
devotion to the Lord. 

 

 

Revelation 12: 1 - 5a   (C of E)

 

Reve 12:1 (NRSV) A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with
the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve
stars. 2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of
giving birth. 3 Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red dragon,
with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail
swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then
the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he
might devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she gave birth to a
son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. 

 

 

GOSPEL:  Mark 1: 21 - 28   (all)

 

Mark 1:21 (NRSV) They went to Caper'naum; and when the sabbath came, he
entered the synagogue and taught. 22 They were astounded at his teaching,
for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. 23 Just
then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, 24 and he
cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to
destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God." 25 But Jesus rebuked
him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" 26 And the unclean spirit,
convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 27 They were
all amazed, and they kept on asking one another, "What is this? A new
teaching--with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they
obey him." 28 At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding
region of Galilee. 

 

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