- For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
- To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with salvation. - For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
- Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! - The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
he brings low and he exalts. - Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
- Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
or ‘Your work has no handles’? - Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
- Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! - If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
- And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
- It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.
- For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
and every tongue shall confess to God.” - Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
- Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
- What is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him? - But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.
- Hear my prayer, O Lord,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am a sojourner with you,
a guest, like all my fathers. - Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.” - Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is he,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey. - Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
- Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
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