Monday, October 12

12Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

13for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

14Do all things without complaining and disputing,

15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

16holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

36Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee's house, and sat down to eat.

37And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil,

38and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.

39Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, 'This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.'

40And Jesus answered and said to him, 'Simon, I have something to say to you.'

41So he said, 'Teacher, say it.' 'There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

42And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?'

43Simon answered and said, 'I suppose the one whom he forgave more.'

44And He said to him, 'You have rightly judged.' Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, 'Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head.

45You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in.

46You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil.

47Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.'

48Then He said to her, 'Your sins are forgiven.'

49And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, 'Who is this who even forgives sins?'

50Then He said to the woman, 'Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.'