Bible Verses About Select Readings

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day is the evil of it.

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?

and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.

`And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

And Mary said, `My soul doth magnify the Lord,

And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour,

Because He looked on the lowliness of His maid-servant, For, lo, henceforth call me happy shall all the generations,

For He who is mighty did to me great things, And holy is His name,

And His kindness is to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,

He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,

He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,

The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,

He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness,

As He spake unto our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed--to the age.'

And Mary remained with her about three months, and turned back to her house.

And Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and did prophesy, saying,

`Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people,

And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant,

As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age;