<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Below are the readings from Charles Wohlers' site for the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Allison</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Allison Cline-Dean</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Lead Chapain, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Based at Colchester Hospital,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Turner Road,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Colchester, Essex</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The following are the
readings for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Feb. 3, according to the
Revised Common (RCL), Episcopal (ECUSA), Roman Catholic, Canadian BAS, and the
Church of England (Common Worship) lectionaries. All readings are taken from the
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible. Unless noted otherwise, the
ECUSA, C of E and </font><font color="#000000">Canadian lectionaries
are identical to the RCL for this day. </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">OLD TESTAMENT:
Jeremiah 1: 4 - 10 (RCL) </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">Jeremiah 1: 4 -
5, 17 - 19 (Roman Catholic) </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jere 1:4 (NRSV)
Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">5 "Before I
formed you in the womb I knew you, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and before you
were born I consecrated you; </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I appointed you
a prophet to the nations." </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">6 Then I said,
"Ah, Lord GOD! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a
boy." 7 But the LORD said to me, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"Do not
say, "I am only a boy'; </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">for you shall go
to all to whom I send you, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and you shall
speak whatever I command you, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">8 Do not be
afraid of them, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">for I am with
you to deliver you, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">says the
LORD." </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">9 Then the LORD
put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"Now I have
put my words in your mouth. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">10 See, today I
appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to pluck up and
to pull down, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to destroy and
to overthrow, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to build and to
plant." </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">17 But you, gird
up your loins; stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not
break down before them, or I will break you before them. 18 And I for my part
have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall,
against the whole land--against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests,
and the people of the land. 19 They will fight against you; but they shall not
prevail against you, for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">PSALM 71: 1 - 6 </font><font color="#000000">(RCL) </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Psalm 71: 1 - 6, 15,
17 </font><font color="#000000">(Roman Catholic) </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Psal 71:1 (NRSV)
In you, O LORD, I take refuge; </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">let me never be
put to shame. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2 In your
righteousness deliver me and rescue me; </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">incline your ear
to me and save me. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3 Be to me a
rock of refuge, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a strong
fortress, to save me, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">for you are my
rock and my fortress. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4 Rescue me, O
my God, from the hand of the wicked, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">from the grasp
of the unjust and cruel. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">5 For you, O
Lord, are my hope, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">my trust, O
LORD, from my youth. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">6 Upon you I
have leaned from my birth; </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">it was you who
took me from my mother's womb. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My praise is
continually of you. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">15 My mouth will
tell of your righteous acts, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">of your deeds of
salvation all day long, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">though their
number is past my knowledge. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">17 O God, from
my youth you have taught me, </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and I still
proclaim your wondrous deeds. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt">71</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10pt">In te, Domine, speravi </span></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt">(ECUSA BCP)</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">1 </font><font color="#000000">In you,
O Lord, have I taken refuge; *</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 13.5pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">let
me never be ashamed.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">2 </font><font color="#000000">In your
righteousness, deliver me and set me free; *</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 13.5pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">incline
your ear to me and save me.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">3 </font><font color="#000000">Be my
strong rock, a castle to keep me safe; *</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 13.5pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">you
are my crag and my stronghold.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">4 </font><font color="#000000">Deliver
me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, *</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 13.5pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">from
of the clutches of the evildoer and the oppressor.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">5 </font><font color="#000000">For you
are my hope, O Lord God, *</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 13.5pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">my
confidence since I was young.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">6 </font><font color="#000000">I have
been sustained by you ever since I was born;</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">from my mother's
womb you have been my strength; *</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 13.5pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">my
praise shall be always of you.</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NEW TESTAMENT: 1
Corinthians 13: 1 - 13 (RCL) </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">1 Corinthians 12:
31 - 13: 4 (5 - 13) (Roman Catholic) </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1Cor 12:31
(NRSV) But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent
way. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">13:1 If I speak
in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy
gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all
mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my
possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have
love, I gain nothing. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4 Love is
patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does
not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">8 Love never
ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they
will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in
part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial
will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought
like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to
childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face
to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been
fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the
greatest of these is love. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Luke 4:21 (NRSV)
Then he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in
your hearing." 22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious
words that came from his mouth. They said, "Is not this Joseph's
son?" 23 He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this
proverb, "Doctor, cure yourself!' And you will say, "Do here also in
your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Caper'naum.'" 24
And he said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's
hometown. 25 But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of
Eli'jah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was
a severe famine over all the land; 26 yet Eli'jah was sent to none of them
except to a widow at Zar'ephath in Si'don. 27 There were also many lepers in
Israel in the time of the prophet Eli'sha, and none of them was cleansed except
Na'aman the Syrian." 28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were
filled with rage. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the
brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off
the cliff. 30 But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">
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