Tuesday, August 17

12For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

13For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

14For in fact the body is not one member but many.

15If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,' is it therefore not of the body?

16And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,' is it therefore not of the body?

17If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

18But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.

19And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

20But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.

21And the eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you'; nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.'

22No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

23And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,

24but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,

25that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

26And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

18'Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

19'Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.

20For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.'

21Then Peter came to Him and said, 'Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?'

22Jesus said to him, 'I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

23Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

24And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

25But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made.

26The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, 'Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.'

27Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

28'But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

29So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.'

30And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.

31So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done.

32Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

33Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?'

34And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.

35'So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.'

1Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

2And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there.

3The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?'

4And He answered and said to them, 'Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'

5and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

6So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.'

7They said to Him, 'Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?'

8He said to them, 'Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.'

10His disciples said to Him, 'If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.'

11But He said to them, 'All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given:

12For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.'

13Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.

14But Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.'

15And He laid His hands on them and departed from there.