Daily Meditation
33 Whosoever shall
seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall
preserve it.
Today’s Reading
Luke
Chapter 17
Take heed to
yourselves
1 Then said he unto
the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him,
through whom they come! 2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged
about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these
little ones. 3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee,
rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 4 And if he trespass against thee
seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I
repent; thou shalt forgive him.
5 And the apostles
said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. 6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as
a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked
up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. 7 But
which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by
and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? 8 And will not
rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and
serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and
drink? 9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were
commanded him? I trow not. 10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those
things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done
that which was our duty to do.
11 And it came to
pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and
Galilee. 12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men
that were lepers, which stood afar off: 13 and they lifted up their voices, and
said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. 14 And when he saw them, he said unto
them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they
went, they were cleansed. 15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed,
turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, 16 and fell down on his face
at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. 17 And Jesus answering
said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? 18 There are not
found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. 19 And he said
unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.
20 And when he was
demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered
them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 neither shall
they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
22 And he said unto
the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days
of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See
here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. 24 For as the
lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the
other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. 25 But
first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
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