Lenten Reading, Day 34
Theme for the Fifth Week of Lent
Theme: Lord God, by your Word fill me with a spirit of discipleship and commitment.
– Reading for Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Luke 9:22-27
22 saying, “The Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised.”
23 Then he said to them all, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. 25 For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves? 26 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words, of them the Son of Man will be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. 27 Indeed, truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”
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New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Reading Selections based on “God’s Word for Daily Life: A Daily Bible Reading Plan For Lent” by the American Bible Society, 2015. Some selections adapted for use in Community Missions, Inc. settings.