Today’s
Readings

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.

Behold, this is how the man who fears the LORD is blessed.

May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”

Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”