Daily Readings | Coptic Calendar

5And of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her; And the Most High Himself shall establish her."

Glory be to God forever. Amen.

1Now it came to pass, afterward, that He went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with Him,

2and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities--Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons,

3and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others who provided for Him from their substance.

Glory be to God forever. Amen.

11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;

12Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the LORD.

13For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.

Glory be to God forever. Amen.

28"Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter;

29but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation"--

30because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

31Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him.

32And a multitude was sitting around Him; and they said to Him, "Look, Your mother and Your brothers are outside seeking You."

33But He answered them, saying, "Who is My mother, or My brothers?"

34And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, "Here are My mother and My brothers!

35For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother."

Glory be to God forever. Amen.

6But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,

7nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called."

8That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

9For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son."

10And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac

11(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

12it was said to her, "The older shall serve the younger."

13As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."

14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!

15For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."

16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

17For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth."

18Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

19You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?"

20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

21Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

24even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

25As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved."

26"And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, "You are not My people,' There they shall be called sons of the living God."

27Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.

28For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."

29And as Isaiah said before: "Unless the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And we would have been made like Gomorrah."

30What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith;

31but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.

32Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.

33As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."