Liturgy Gospel
Paulines Epistle
Paul, the servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed to the Gospel of God.
A reading from the Epistle of our teacher Paul to the Corinthians .
May his blessings be upon us.
Amen.
1 Corinthians 4 : 16 - 5 : 9
Chapter 4
| 16 | Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
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| 17 | For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
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| 18 | Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
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| 19 | But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
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| 20 | For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.
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| 21 | What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
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Chapter 5
| 1 | It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!
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| 2 | And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
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| 3 | For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.
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| 4 | In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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| 5 | deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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| 6 | Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
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| 7 | Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
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| 8 | Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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| 9 | I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
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The grace of God the Father be with you all.
Amen.
