Praise and Worship Service
Worship Service
Lectionary Theme: Marriage: Celebration of Unity and Partnership Ninth Sunday after the Feast of Pentecost
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Genesis 1:24-31 First Lesson
24. And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so.
25. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.
26. Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
27. So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
28. God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
29. God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.
30. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
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1 Corinthians 1-13 Second Lesson
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Ephesians 5:21-32 Epistle
21. Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.
23. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior.
24. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.
25. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
26. in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word,
27. so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish.
28. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29. For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
30. because we are members of his body.
31. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
32. This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church.
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Matthew 19:4-6 Gospel
4. He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’
5. and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
6. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”