November 8 2020

First Reading

Colossians 1:1-11

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, To the

saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace,

from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of

our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ

Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for

you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is

come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you,

since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: As ye also learned of

Epaphras our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; Who also

declared unto us your love in the Spirit. For this cause we also, since the day we heard it,

do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of

his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord

unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of

God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and

longsuffering with joyfulness;

Second Reading

James 1:1-12

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are

scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers

temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let

patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If

any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and

upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For

he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not

that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is

unstable in all his ways. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: But

the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the

flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also, shall the rich

man fade away in his ways. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is

tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love

him.

Gospel

Matthew 6:25-34

Therefore, I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye

shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat,

and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do

they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not

much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his

stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they

grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all

his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the

field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe

you, O ye of little faith? Therefore, take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? or, what

shall we drink? or, therewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the

Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be

added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take

thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.