A reading from the meeting in two years of the

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans, brothers and sisters, and speaking in few of terms because of the weakness of your relations, we're just as you know. A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans.

Brothers and sisters, I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature.

For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness.

So now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin you were free from righteousness, but what profit did you

get then from the things of which you are now ashamed?

For the end of those things is death,

but now you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God.

The benefit that you have leads to sanctification,

and its end is eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death,

but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, the Lord. The word of the Lord.

Thank you to God. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Bless the man who follows not the

counsel of the wicked, nor walks in the way of sinners,

nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night.

He is like a tree planted near running water that yields its fruit in due season

and whose leaves never fade.

Whatever he does prospers.

Bless this heart, may, who hope you the Lord.

Not so the wicked, not so.

They are like chaff, which the wind drives away.

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