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Today's Readings
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Friday, 20th October 2017 --- 10 Babah 1734
Matins Gospel
Stand in the fear of God and listen to the Holy Gospel.
A reading from the Gospel according to our teacher Saint Matthew the Evangelist.
May His Blessings be with us all.
Matthew 18 : 10 - 20
Chapter 18
| 10 | "Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
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| 11 | For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
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| 12 | "What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?
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| 13 | And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
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| 14 | Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
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| 15 | "Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
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| 16 | But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that "by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.'
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| 17 | And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
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| 18 | "Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
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| 19 | "Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
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| 20 | For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."
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And Glory be to God forever.
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