October 11 2020

First Reading

Romans 7:1-13

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath

dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is

bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is

loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be

married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead,

she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another

man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ;

that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we

should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,

which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now

we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should

serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is

the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known

lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the

commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was

dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin

revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be

unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew

me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was

then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear

sin, working

Second Reading

1 Peter 1:21-25

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory;

that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying

the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one

another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of

incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. For all flesh is as

grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower

thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word

which by the gospel is reached unto you.

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, Wherewithal 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.