SECOND LESSON 1Corinthians 6:1220 All
things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are
lawful for me, but I will not be dominated by anything. Food is meant for the
stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy both one and the other. The
body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God
raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are
members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of
a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one
body with her? For it is said, The two shall be one flesh. But anyone united
to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits
is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. Or do you not know
that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and
that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your
body. THE GOSPEL The
Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ According
Glory
to you, Lord Christ. The
next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, Follow me.
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and
said to him, We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets
wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth. Nathanael said to him, Can anything
good come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see. When Jesus
saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, Here is truly an Israelite in whom
there is no deceit! Nathanael asked him, Where did you get to know me?
Jesus answered, I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.
Nathanael replied, Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!
Jesus answered, Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the g
tree? You will see greater things than these. And he said to him, Very truly,
I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon
the Son of Man.
Praise to you Lord Christ.
The Rite Word: Lectionary Texts © 1998 by Church Publishing Incorporated. All rights reserved. Readings taken from The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible © 1989 by The Division of Christian Education of The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., used by permission.
|



