Thursday of the 1st week of Ordinary Time

7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today if you will hear his voice,

8don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

9where your fathers tested me and tried me,

and saw my deeds for forty years.

10Therefore I was displeased with that generation,

and said, ‘They always err in their heart,

but they didn’t know my ways.’

11As I swore in my wrath,

‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; 13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.

Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker,

7for he is our God.

We are the people of his pasture,

and the sheep in his care.

Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,

as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

9when your fathers tempted me,

tested me, and saw my work.

10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,

and said, “They are a people who err in their heart.

They have not known my ways.”

11Therefore I swore in my wrath,

“They won’t enter into my rest.”

40A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.” 41Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.” 42When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was made clean. 43He strictly warned him and immediately sent him out, 44and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.” 45But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.