The lesson for the first Sunday of Lent comes from 2 Corinthians chapter 6.

Brethren, we entreat you not to receive the grace of God in vain, for he says,

In an acceptable time I have heard you and in the day of salvation I have helped you.

Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

We give no offense to anyone that our ministry may not be blamed.

On the contrary, let us conduct ourselves in all circumstances as God's ministers, in much

patience, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in

labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings, in innocence, in knowledge, in long

sufferings, in kindness in the Holy Spirit, in unaffected love, in the word of truth, in the power

of God. With the armor of justice on the right hand and on the left, in honor and dishonor,

in evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet truthful as

unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we live as chastised but not killed as sorrowful

yet always rejoicing as poor yet enriching many as having nothing yet possessing all things

continuation of the holy gospel according according to St. Matthew,

at that time Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil,

and after fasting 40 days and 40 nights he was hungry.

And the tempter came and said to him,

If you are the son of God,

command that these stones become loaves of bread.

But he answered and said, it is written, not by bread alone as man live, but by every word

that comes forth from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him into the holy city and set him on the

pinnacle of the temple and said to him, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down for

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