RCL 2020-01-01

Ecclesiastes 3:1-13

	Ec 3:1 ¶ To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
	Ec 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;
	Ec 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
	Ec 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
	Ec 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
	Ec 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
	Ec 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
	Ec 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
	Ec 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
	Ec 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
	Ec 3:11 ¶ He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
	Ec 3:12 I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
	Ec 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.

Psalm 8

	Ps 8:1 ¶ « To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. » O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
	Ps 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
	Ps 8:3 ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
	Ps 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
	Ps 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
	Ps 8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet:
	Ps 8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
	Ps 8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatsoever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
	Ps 8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth!

Revelation 21:1-6a

	Re:21:1 ¶ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
	Re:21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
	Re:21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
	Re:21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
	Re:21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
	Re:21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Matthew 25:31-46

|| |- | || Mt 25:31 ¶ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: || |- | || Mt 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep from the goats: || |- | || Mt 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. || |- | || Mt 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: || |- | || Mt 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: || |- | || Mt 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. || |- | || Mt 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or thirsty, and gave [thee] drink? || |- | || Mt 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]? || |- | || Mt 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? || |- | || Mt 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me. || |- | || Mt 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: || |- | || Mt 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: || |- | || Mt 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. || |- | || Mt 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? || |- | || Mt 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me. || |- | || Mt 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. |- |}