The Book of Common Prayer Table of
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The Eighteenth Sunday after
Trinity
The Collect
Lord, we beseech
thee, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the
world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to
follow thee the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle
1 Corinthians 1.4-8
I thank my
God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you
by Jesus Christ; that in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all
utterance, and in all knowledge; even as the testimony of Christ
was confirmed in you; so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting
for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall also confirm you
unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
The Gospel
St. Matthew 22.34-end
When the Pharisees
had heard that Jesus had put the Sadducees to silence, they were
gathered together. Then one of them, who was a lawyer, asked him a
question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great
commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the
second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. While
the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying,
What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The
son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit
call him Lord, saying, the Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my
right hand, till I make thine enemies thy foot-stool? If David then
call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him
a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more
questions.
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