Daily Scripture Reading for the
Liturgical Calendar Year
(beginning the 1st Sunday of Advent)

September 14, 2010

Text taken from the
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The Lectionary According to the Christian Seasons

Numbers 21:4-9

4 And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to compass the land of Edom, and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread." 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against thee. Pray unto the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us." And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, "Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole. And it shall come to pass that every one who is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live." 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole; and it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived.

1 Give ear, O my people, to my law;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, 
3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 
4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come 
the praises of the LORD and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done. 
5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel,
 which He commanded to our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; 
6 that the generation to come might know them,
even the children who should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children, 
7 that they might set their hope in God 
and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments; 

34 When He slew them, then they sought Him;
and they returned and inquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock,
and the high God, their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth,
and they lied unto Him with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with Him,
neither were they steadfast in His covenant.
38 But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity
and destroyed them not.
Yea, many a time turned He His anger away,
and did not stir up all His wrath;
39 for He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passeth away and cometh not again.

Philippians 2:1-11

1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tenderness and mercies, 2 fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem the other better than himself. 4 Look not every man to his own things, but every man also to the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

6 who, being in the form of God, 
thought it not robbery to be equal with God,
7 but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, 
and was made in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in the fashion of a man, 
He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death--even the death of the cross.
9 Therefore God also hath highly exalted Him, 
and given Him a name which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
of things in Heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, 
to the glory of God the Father.

John 3:13-21

13 And no man hath ascended up to Heaven, but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of Man who is in Heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

18 "He that believeth in Him is not condemned; but He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation: that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

Words of Wisdom - Wisdom of Solomon 16:15-16

But it is not possible to escape Thine hand. 
For the ungodly, refusing to know Thee, were scourged by the strength of Thine arm. 
With strange rains, hails, and showers were they persecuted, which they could not avoid, 
and through fire were they consumed. 

Jesus Speaks Morals & Values - Matthew 22:37-40

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 neighbor as thyself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."