Friday, November 19, 2021

Fast Day

II Corinthians 1:23-2:11
Mark 6:1-6

II Corinthians 1:23-2:11

[23] But I call God to witness against me — it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth.
[24] Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

Chapter 2
[1] For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit.
[2] For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?
[3] And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.
[4] For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
[5] But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure –not to put it too severely — to you all.
[6] For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough;
[7] so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
[8] So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
[9] For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.
[10] Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,
[11] to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

Mark 6:1-6

[1] He went away from there and came to his own country; and his disciples followed him.
[2] And on the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him? What mighty works are wrought by his hands!
[3] Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
[4] And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.”
[5] And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick people and healed them.
[6] And he marveled because of their unbelief.
And he went about among the villages teaching.

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