September 21, 2026

¹I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

²with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

³being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

⁴There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all.

⁷But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

¹¹He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

¹²for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

¹³until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

¹The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

²Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

³There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

⁴Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

⁹As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.

¹⁰As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

¹¹When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

¹²When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

¹³But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."