Wisdom 6:1-11
Psalms 82:3-4, 6-7
Luke 17:11-19
Wisdom 6:1-11
(1) Wisdom is better than power, and a prudent man is better than a powerful one (2) Therefore, hear, O kings, and understand; learn, you judges of the ends of the earth (3) Listen closely, you who hold the attention of the crowds, and who please yourselves by disturbing the nations (4) For power has been given to you from the Lord and strength from the Most High, who will examine your works and scrutinize your thoughts (5) For, when you were ministers of his kingdom, you did not judge correctly, nor keep the law of justice, nor walk according to the will of God (6) Horribly and quickly he will appear to you, because he will make a severe judgment for those who are in charge (7) For, to the little, great mercy is granted, but the powerful will endure powerful torment (8) For the Lord will not exempt anyone’s character, nor will he stand in awe of anyone’s greatness, because he himself made the little and the great, and he is equally concerned for everyone (9) But a powerful torture pursues the powerful (10) Therefore, O kings, these, my words, are for you, so that you may learn wisdom and not perish (11) For those who have justly preserved justice will be justified, and those who have learned these things will find what to answer
Psalms 82:3-4, 6-7
(3) For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head (4) They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones (6) For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant (7) the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites
Luke 17:11-19
(11) And it happened that, while he was traveling to Jerusalem, he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee (12) And as he was entering a certain town, ten leprous men met him, and they stood at a distance (13) And they lifted up their voice, saying, “Jesus, Teacher, take pity on us. (14) And when he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And it happened that, as they were going, they were cleansed (15) And one of them, when he saw that he was cleansed, returned, magnifying God with a loud voice (16) And he fell face down before his feet, giving thanks. And this one was a Samaritan (17) And in response, Jesus said: “Were not ten made clean? And so where are the nine (18) Was no one found who would return and give glory to God, except this foreigner? (19) And he said to him: “Rise up, go forth. For your faith has saved you.
Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13
(1) And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called (2) with all humility and meekness, with patience, supporting one another in charity (3) Be anxious to preserve the unity of the Spirit within the bonds of peace (4) One body and one Spirit: to this you have been called by the one hope of your calling (5) one Lord, one faith, one baptism (6) one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all (7) Yet to each one of us there has been given grace according to the measure allotted by Christ (11) And the same one granted that some would be Apostles, and some Prophets, yet truly others evangelists, and others pastors and teachers (12) for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ (13) until we all meet in the unity of faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as a perfect man, in the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ
Psalms 1:1-4, 6
(1) Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence (2) But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night (3) And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper (4) Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth (6) For the Lord knows the way of the just. And the path of the impious will pass away
John 17:20-26
(20) But I am not praying for them only, but also for those who through their word shall believe in me (21) So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me (22) And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we also are one (23) I am in them, and you are in me. So may they be perfected as one. And may the world know that you have sent me and that you have loved them, just as you have also loved me (24) Father, I will that where I am, those whom you have given to me may also be with me, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me. For you loved me before the founding of the world (25) Father most just, the world has not known you. But I have known you. And these have known that you sent me (26) And I have made known your name to them, and I will make it known, so that the love in which you have loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.
