JOEL.

XVIII, 7. 4 Woe unto the world be

cause of offences! for it must needs bo III, 6. The children also of Judah, that offences come; but woe to that man and the children of Jerusalem, have ye by whom the offence cometh! sold unto the Grecians, that ye might XXII, 39. And the second is like remove them far from their border. unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as

7. Behold, I will raise them out of the thyself. place whither ye have sold them, and 40. On these two commandments hang will return your recompense upon your all

the law and the prophets. own head:

XXIII, 8. But be ye not called Rab8. And I will sell your sons and your bi: for one is your Master, even Christ; daughters into the hand of the children and all ye are brethren. of Judah, and they shall sell them to the 23. Woe unto you, Scribes and PhariSabeans, to a people far off; for the sees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, LORD hath spoken it.

and anise, and cummin, and have omitted

the weightier matters of the law, judgMICAH.

ment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye

to have done, and not to leave the other 8. He hath shewed thee, O man, what undone. is good; and what doth the Lord re- 24. Ye blind guides, which strain at a quire of thee, but to do justly, and to love gnat, and swallow a camel. mercy, and to walk humbly with thy 33. Ye serpents, ye generation of viGod Ž

pers, how can ye escape the damnation MALACHI.

of hell ?

XXV, 44. Then shall they also anIII, 5. And I will come near to you swer him, saying, Lord, when saw we to judgment; and I will be a swift wit- thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, ness against the sorcerers, and against or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did the adulterers, and against false swearers, not minister unto thee? and against those that oppress the hire- 45. Then shall he answer them, sayling in his wages, the widow, and the ing, Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as fatherless, and that turn aside the strang- ye did it not to one of the least of these, er from his right, and fear not me, saith ye did it not to me.-St. Matthew's the LORD of hosts.

Gospel.

ST. LUKE.
JESUS CHRIST.

IV, 18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon V, 7. Blessed are the merciful: for me, because he hath anointed me to they shall obtain mercy,

preach the gospel to the poor; he hath VII, 2. For with what judgment ye sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to judge, ye shall be judged: and with preach deliverance to the captives, and what measure ye mete, it shall be mea- recovering of sight to the blind, to set at sured to you again.

liberty them that are bruised. 12. Therefore all things whatsoever VI, 36. Be ye therefore merciful, as ye would that men should do to you, do your Father also is merciful. ye even so to them: for this is the law X, 36. Which now of these three, and the prophets.

thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him 18. A good tree cannot bring forth that fell among the thieves ? evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree 37. And he said, He that showed merbring forth good fruit.

cy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, 19. Every tree that bringeth not forth Ġo, and do thou likewise. good fruit is hewn down, and cast into XI, 47. And that servant, which knew the fire.

his lord's will, and prepared not himself, 20. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall neither did according to his will, shall be know them.

beaten with many stripes.---St. Luke's IX, 13. But go ye and learn what that Gospel. meaneth, I will have mercy, and not

ST. JOHN. sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. III, 19. And this is the condemnation,

XVI, 3. Oye hypocrites, ye can discern that light is come into the world, and men the face of the sky; but can ye not dis- loved darkness rather than light, because cern the signs of the times ?

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20. For every one that doeth evil hateth V, 1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty the light, neither cometh to the light, lest wherewith Christ hath made us free, and his deeds should be reproved.

be not entangled again with the yoke of XV, 12. 1 This is my commandment, bondage. That ye love one another, as I have loved 13. For, brethren, ye have been called you.

unto liberty; only use not liberty for an 14. Ye are my friends, if ye do what- occasion to the filesh, but by love serve soever I command you.

one another. 15. Henceforth I call you not servants;

14. For all the law is fulfilled in one for the servant knoweth not what his lord word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy doeth: but I have called you friends; for neighbor as thyself. all things that I have heard of my Father 15. But if ye bite and devour one anI have made known unto you.

other, take heed that ye be not consumed 17. These things I command you, that one of another.-Galatians. ye love one another.--St. John's Gospel. IV, 28. Let him that stole steal no

more; but rather let him labor, working ST. PETER.

with his hands the thing which is good,

that he may have to give to him that X, 34. 1 Then Peter opened his needeth. mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive V, 11. And have no fellowship with that God is no respecter of persons : the unfruitful works of darkness, but 35. But in every nation he that feareth rather

reprove

them. him, and worketh righteousness, is ac- 9. And, ye masters, do the same things cepted with him.-Acts.

unto them, forbearing threatening: 8. Finally, be ye all of one mind, have knowing that your Master also is in ing compassion one of another; love as heaven; neither is there respect of perbrethren, be pitiful, be courteous; sons with him.--Ephesians.

10. For he that will love life, and see III, 25. But he that doeth wrong shall good days, let him refrain his tongue receive for the wrong which he hath done: from evil, and his lips that they speak no and there is no respect of persons. guile;

IV, 1. Masters, give unto your serv11. Let him eschew evil, and do good; ants that which is just and equal; knowlet him seek peace, and ensue it.—1st ing that ye also have a Master in heaven. Epistle.

Colossians. ST. PAUL.

I, 8. But we know that the law is

good, if a man use it lawfully, II, 3. And thinkest thou this, O man, 9. Knowing this, that the law is not that judgest them which do such things, made for a righteous man, but for the and doest the same, that thou shalt lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly escape the judgment of God ?

and for sinners, for unholy and profane, 6. Who will render to every man ac- for murderers of fathers and murderers cording to his deeds.

of mothers, for manslayers, 11. For there is no respect of per- 10. For whoremongers, for them that sons with God.-Epistle to the Romans. defile themselves with mankind, for men

XVII, 26. And hath made of one blood stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and *all nations of men for to dwell on all the if there be any other thing that is conface of the earth, and hath determined trary to sound doctrine. the times before appointed, and the V, 21. I charge thee before God, and bounds of their habitation.--Acts. the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect an

X, 11. Now all these things happened gels, that thou observe these things, unto them for ensamples; and they are without preferring one before another, written for our admonition, upon whom doing nothing by partiality. the ends of the world are come.-1 Co 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man, rinthians.

neither be partaker of other men's sins: III, 17. Now the Lord is that Spirit: keep thyself pure. and where the Spirit of the Lord is, VI, 10. For the love of money is the there is liberty.

root of all evil; which while some men VIII, 14. But by an equality, that now coveted after, they have erred from the at this time your abundance may be a faith, and pierced themselves through supply for their want, that their abundance with many sorrows. also may be a supply for your want, that 11. But thou, O man of God, fee there may be equality.--2 Corinthians. these things; and follow after righteous

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ness, godliness, faith, love, patience, faith, and I have works: shew me thy meekness.

faith without thy works, and I will shew 18. That they do good, that they be thee my faith by my works. rich in good works, ready to distribute, 19. Thou believest that there is one willing to communicate.—1 Timothy. God; thou doest well: the devils also

I, 6. For God hath not given us the believe, and tremble. spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, V, 1. Go to now, ye rich men, weep 1 and of a sound mind."

and howl for your miseries that shall IV, 2. Preach the word; be instant in come upon you. season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, 4. Behold, the hire of the laborers who exhort, with all long-suffering and doc- have reaped down your fields, which is trine.

of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and 3. For the time will come when they the cries of them which have reaped are will not endure sound doctrine.—2 Ti entered into the ears of the Lord of mothy.

sabaoth. X, 26. For if we sin wilfully after 5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the that we have received the knowledge of earth, and been wanton; ye have nourthe truth, there remaineth no more sacri- ished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. fice for sins,

6. Ýe have condemned and killed the 27. But a certain fearful looking for of just; and he doth not resist you. judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

ST. JOHN. 30. For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will re- II, 10. He that loveth his brother, compense, saith the Lord. And again, abideth in the light, and there is none The Lord shall judge his people. occasion of stumbling in him:

31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the 11. But he that hateth his brother is in hands of the living God.

darkness, and walketh in darkness, and XIII, 3. Remember them that are in knoweth not whither he goeth, because bonds, as bound with them; and them that darkness hath blinded his eyes. which suffer adversity, as being your- III, 10. In this the children of God are selves also in the body.--Hebrews. manifest, and the children of the devil:

whosoever doeth not righteousness is not ST. JAMES.

of God, neither he that loveth not his

brother. 1, 27. Pure religion, and undefiled, be- 11. For this is the message that ye fore God and the

Father, is this, To visit heard from the beginning, that we should the fatherless and widows in their afflic- love one another. tion, and to keep himself unspotted from 17. But whoso hath this world's good, the world.

and seeth his brother have need, and II, 5. Hearken, my beloved brethren, shutteth up his bowels of compassion from Hath not God chosen the poor of this him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? world rich in faith, and heirs of the king- IV, 20. If a man say, I love God and dom which he hath promised to them hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that that love him?

loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, 6. But ye have despised the poor. Do how can he love God whom he hath not not rich men oppress you, and draw you seen? before the judgment-seats ?

21. And this commandment have we 8. If ye fulfil the royal law according from him, That he who loveth God love to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy his brother also.—1st Epistle. neighbor as thyself , ye do well :

10. If there come any unto you, and 9. But if ye have respect to persons, bring not this doctrine, receive him not ye commit sin, and are convinced of the into your house, neither bid him God law as transgressors.

speed: II, 16. And one of you say unto them, 11. For he that biddeth him God speed Depart in

peace, be ye warmed and filled; is partaker of his evil deeds.-22 Epistle. notwithstanding ye give them not those XIII, 9. If any man have an ear, let things which are needful to the body, him hear. what doth it profit?

10. He that leadeth into captivity, shall 17. Even so faith, if it hath not works, go into captivity: he that killeth with is dead, being alone.

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from heaven, saying, Come out of her, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and my people, that ye be not partakers of slaves and souls of men. her sins, and that ye receive not of her XX, 12. And I saw the dead, small plagues :

and great stand before God: and the 5. For her sins have reached unto books were opened; and another book heaven, and God hath remembered her was opened, which is the book of life: iniquities.

and the dead were judged out of those 6. Reward her even as she rewarded things which were written in the books, you, and double unto her double, accord- according to their works. ing to her works: in the cup which she 13. And the sea gave up the dead hath filled, fill to her double.

which were in it; and death and hell 10. Standing afar off for the fear of her delivered up the dead which were in them: torment, saying, Alas, alas! that great and they were judged every man accordcity Babylon, that mighty city! for in one ing to their works. hour is thy judgment come.

XXII, 12. And behold, I come quick11. And the merchants of the earth ly; and my reward is with me, to give shall weep and mourn over her; every man according as his work shall man buyeth their merchandise any more: be.-Revelation.

13. Fine flour, and wheat, and beasts,

for no

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