(~) Bible Readings for Sunday October 3
Habakkuk 1:1-6(7-11)12-13;2:1-4
2 Timothy 1:(1-5)6-14
Luke 17:5-10
Old Testament Habakkuk 1:1-6(7-11)12-13;2:1-4
The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw.
O LORD, how long shall I cry for help,
and you will not listen?
Or cry to you "Violence!"
and you will not save?
Why do you make me see wrong-doing
and look at trouble?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
So the law becomes slack
and justice never prevails.
The wicked surround the righteous--
therefore judgment comes forth perverted.
Look at the nations, and see!
Be astonished! Be astounded!
For a work is being done in your days
that you would not believe if you were told.
For I am rousing the Chaldeans,
that fierce and impetuous nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth
to seize dwellings not their own.
[Dread and fearsome are they;
their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.
Their horses are swifter than leopards,
more menacing than wolves at dusk;
their horses charge.
Their horsemen come from far away;
they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
They all come for violence,
with faces pressing forward;
they gather captives like sand.
At kings they scoff,
and of rulers they make sport.
They laugh at every fortress,
and heap up earth to take it.
Then they sweep by like the wind;
they transgress and become guilty;
their own might is their god!]
Are you not from of old,
O LORD my God, my Holy One?
You shall not die.
O LORD, you have marked them for judgment;
and you, O Rock, have established them for punishment.
Your eyes are too pure to behold evil,
and you cannot look on wrongdoing;
why do you look on the treacherous,
and are silent when the wicked swallow
those more righteous than they?
I will stand at my watchpost,
and station myself on the rampart;
I will keep watch to see what he will say to me,
and what he will answer concerning my complaint.
Then the LORD answered me and said:
Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so that a runner may read it.
For there is still a vision for the appointed time;
it speaks of the end, and does not lie.
If it seems to tarry, wait for it;
it will surely come, it will not delay.
Look at the proud!
Their spirit is not right in them,
but the righteous live by their faith.
The Epistle 2 Timothy 1:(1-5)6-14
[Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the sake of the
promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, my beloved child:
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I
am grateful to God-- whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my
ancestors did-- when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and
day. Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with
joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your
grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you.]
For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within
you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of
cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of
self-discipline. Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord
or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel,
relying on the power of God, who saved us and called us with a holy
calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and
grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Christ
Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel. For this gospel I was appointed a herald and an
apostle and a teacher, and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not
ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure
that he is able to guard until that day what I have entrusted to him. Hold
to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the
faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard the good treasure entrusted
to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us.
The Gospel Luke 17:5-10
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" The Lord replied, "If
you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry
tree, `Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. "Who
among you would say to your slave who has just come in from plowing or
tending sheep in the field, `Come here at once and take your place at the
table'? Would you not rather say to him, `Prepare supper for me, put on
your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and
drink'? Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? So you also,
when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, `We are worthless
slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!'"
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