Readings for Sunday, Oct 5, 2025

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The 1st reading is from Habakkuk 1: 1-4; 2: 1-4

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1. 1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

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2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

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3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

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4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

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2. 1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

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2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

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3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

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4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

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The 2nd Reading is from 2 Timothy 1: 1-14​​​​​​​

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1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

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2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

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4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

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5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

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6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

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7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

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9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

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10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

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11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

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12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

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13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

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