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Thirty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
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The following readings below are for Sunday, January
20, 2019:
Today's Epistle reading [Colossians 3.12-16]:
Put on
then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another
and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ
rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with
thankfulness in your hearts to God.
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The Gospel reading for today
[Luke 18.18-27]:
And
a ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why
do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery. Do no kill,
Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother'." And he said, "All these I have observed
from my youth." And when Jesus heard it, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you
have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." But when he heard
this be became sad, for he was very rich. Jesus looking at him said, "How hard it is for those who have riches
to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter
the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said, "What is impossible
with men is possible with God."
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