Saint Henry, Bishop and Martyr

10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. 11To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. 12When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts? 13Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. 14My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them. 15And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. 16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely, 17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.

9I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.

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16But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?

17Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

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21These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

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23The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.

10:34Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. 35For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36And as a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. 37He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. 38And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. 39He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it. 40He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. 41He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. 42And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

11:1And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he passed from thence, to teach and preach in their cities.