Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr

10Hear the LORD’s word, you rulers of Sodom!

Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

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16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean.

Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.

Cease to do evil.

17Learn to do well.

Seek justice.

Relieve the oppressed.

Defend the fatherless.

Plead for the widow.”

18“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD:

“Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.

Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19If you are willing and obedient,

you will eat the good of the land;

20but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword;

for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”

8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.

Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

9I have no need for a bull from your stall,

nor male goats from your pens.

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16But to the wicked God says,

“What right do you have to declare my statutes,

that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

17since you hate instruction,

and throw my words behind you?

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21You have done these things, and I kept silent.

You thought that I was just like you.

I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

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23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,

and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, 2saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat. 3All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do. 4For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. 5But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments, 6and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, 7the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men. 8But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. 9Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. 10Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. 11But he who is greatest among you will be your servant. 12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.