Saturday, July 30, 2022

Readings for July 31, 2022, annotated, Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Lectionary 114

The bolded scriptural citations will take you to additional translations. The entire chapter is included to provide context. 


Information about the meaning the original Hebrew or Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue.  It is provided beneath the specific reading the words are in. 


Excerpts collected in yellow  at the end of this post tell us something about God’s nature or our relationship to Him. 


Excerpts collected in green  at the end of this post tell us about something God wants us to do. 


Excerpts collected in red  at the end of this post tell us about something God does not want us to do. 

 

These readings are also considered at Focus on what has eternal significance, look beyond temporal satisfaction (Readings for August 4, 2019 annotated) (Lectionary: 114)

 

 

Reading 1: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23   

Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities!  All things are vanity!

***

Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property. 
This also is vanity and a great misfortune. 
For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun? 
All his days sorrow and grief are his occupation; even at night his mind is not at rest. 
This also is vanity.

 

Vanity, vanities= הֶבֶל = heḇel  Blue Letter Bible   vapour, breath; vanity, vainly; emptiness; something transitory and unsatisfactory; darkness; evanescent, unsubstantial, worthless

 

Qoheleth = קֹהֶלֶת = qōheleṯ  Blue Letter Bible   collector (of sentences), preacher, public speaker, speaker in an assembly

 

labored = עָמָל = ʿāmāl  Blue Letter Bible   toil, trouble, labour; heavy labor; wearing effort, weariness; worry, whether of body or mind; trouble, mischief, vexation; travail

 

wisdom = חָכְמָה = ḥāḵmâ Blue Letter Bible a divine attribute or energy; shrewdness; skill; prudence; cleverness; dexterity

 

knowledge = דַּעַת = daʿaṯ  Blue Letter Bible   knowledge, perception, skill; discernment, understanding, wisdom; cunning; knowing; intelligence

 

skill = כִּשְׁרוֹן = kišrôn  Blue Letter Bible  success, skill, profit, prosperity; advantage; equity, good

 

property = חֵלֶק = ḥēleq Blue Letter Bible  portion, share, part, territory; one's possession; share or interest in; smoothness

 

misfortune = רַע = raʿ  Blue Letter Bible   malignant; unpleasant, giving pain, unhappiness, misery; bad; evil; disagreeable, displeasing; unkind (vicious in disposition); wicked (ethically); distress, misery, injury; vex, hurtful;  injurious; wrong

 

toil—see “labored” above

 

anxiety of heart = רַעְיוֹן = raʿyôn  Blue Letter Bible vexation; longing, striving; desire; study 

 

sorrow = מַכְאֹב = maḵ'ōḇ  Blue Letter Bible  pain, sorrow; anguish or (figuratively) affliction: —grief; mental pain

 

grief = כַּעַס = kaʿas Blue Letter Bible  anger, vexation, provocation, grief; frustration; indignation, provocation; spite; wrath 

occupation = עִנְיָן = ʿinyān  Blue Letter Bible  occupation, task, job; employment, business, travail

 

mind = לֵב = lēḇ  Blue Letter Bible  inner man, mind, will, understanding; midst; soul; mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory; inclination, resolution, determination (of will); conscience; seat of appetites, emotions, passions, courage; feelings, the will and even the intellect; the centre of anything

 

rest = שָׁכַב = šāḵaḇ  Blue Letter Bible to lie down; rest, relax; sleep; prostrate; pour out  



 

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17

R. (Ps 95:7-8) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
You turn man back to dust, saying, “Return, O children of men.”
For a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday, now that it is past, or as a watch of the night.


R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
You make an end of them in their sleep; the next morning they are like the changing grass, which at dawn springs up anew, but by evening wilts and fades.


R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants!


R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.
And may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands!
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

 

hear = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ  Blue Letter Bible   listen to, obey; perceive by ear; to hear with attention or interest, listen to; give heed; to consent, agree; yield to; to obey, be obedient; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); to hear and answer

 

voice = קוֹל = qôl  Blue Letter Bible voice, sound, noise;  to call aloud; a voice or sound; bleating, crackling, lowing, neighing, stamping of feet; noise of inanimate objects

 

harden קָשָׁה = qashah  Blue Letter Bible to be hard, be severe, be fierce, be harsh; to make difficult, make difficulty; to make severe, make burdensome; make stiff, make stubborn; obstinacy; to show stubbornness; to be dense, i.e. tough or severe; be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous; be sore

 

heart  = לֵבָב = lebab Blue Letter Bible inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding; mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory; inclination, resolution, determination (of will); seat of appetites; seat of emotions and passions; mode of thinking and acting; will and purpose; intellect

 

teach =יָדַע= yāḏaʿ  Blue Letter Bible  to perceive and see, find out and discern; to discriminate, distinguish; to know by experience; to recognize; be acquainted with; to know (a person carnally); to know how, be skillful in; to have knowledge, be wise;  to be made known, be or become known, be revealed; to be instructed; privy to; seeing; observe with the eyes; be aware of; to get to know, discover; to turn the mind to anything, to care about, to see about

 

number = מָנָה = mānâ Blue Letter Bible count, reckon, number, assign, tell, appoint, prepare; ordain; to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; prepare

 

days = יוֹם = yôm  Blue Letter Bible  day, time, year; a working day, a day's journey; the heat of the day; day time, daily; perpetually; lifetime; daily duties, observances, etc. 

 

gain = בּוֹא = bô' Blue Letter Bible to go in, enter, come, go, come in; to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring upon; carry; fetch; follow; entering into specific relations; walk, associate with

 

wisdom = חָכְמָה = ḥāḵmâ Blue Letter Bible a divine attribute or energy; shrewdness; skill; prudence; cleverness; dexterity

 

fill = שָׂבַע = śāḇaʿ Blue Letter Bible  be sated, be fulfilled, be surfeited; to have in excess

 

daybreak = בֹּקֶר = bōqer  Blue Letter Bible  morning, break of day, end of night, coming of daylight; bright joy after night of distress

 

kindness = חֶסֶד = ḥeseḏ  Blue Letter Bible   goodness, kindness, faithfulness; favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful, mercy; kindness especially as extended to the lowly, needy and miserable; lovely appearance; of God: kindness, lovingkindness in condescending to the needs of his creatures; redemption from enemies and troubles; in preservation of life from death; in quickening of spiritual life; in redemption from sin; in keeping the covenants; fidelity; abundant, plenteous in kindness (goodness); greatness of thy mercy; everlasting; plural mercies, deeds of kindness, the historic displays of lovingkindness; desire, ardor; zeal; benignity, benevolence, pity, mercy; grace

 

prosper = כּוּן = kûn  Blue Letter Bible  to be firm, be stable, be established; to be fixed, be securely determined;  to prepare, be ready; to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up; make provision; to direct; be right, fit, sincere, firm, constant; sure, constant; established, confirmed; enduring; direct one’s face toward; arrange, order

 

work = מַעֲשֶׂה = maʿăśê  Blue Letter Bible  deed, thing done, act; work, labour; undertaking, enterprise; achievement; thing made; product

 

hands = יָד = yāḏ  Blue Letter Bible  hand; strength, power (fig.); means, direction; force; ministry 



 

Reading 2: Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 
If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.  

***

Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator. 


Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all.

 

raised = συνεγερω = synegeirō  Blue Letter Bible  to raise together; to rouse in company with; to revivify (spiritually) in resemblance to;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  help in raising, stirring up; rising together, reviving  

 

seek = ζητω = zeteo  Blue Letter Bible  to seek after, endeavor; inquire for; require, demandstrive after, endeavor, to desire; metaphorically, to "seek" by thinking, to "seek" how to do something; strive after, desire; to seek (i. e. in order to find out) by thinking, meditating, reasoning; to inquire into; to seek in order to find; to crave, demand something from someone; aim at;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  inquire for; search after, search out; inquire into, investigate, examine; require, demand; desire; feel the want of

 

above = νω = anō  Blue Letter Bible  in a higher place; on high; upwards, above; inland, up from the coast; brim; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  upwards; the upward roadgoing up the country (i.e. inland); aloft; on high; in heaven; on the upper side; northward; inward from the coast; higher

 

right hand = δεξις = dexios  Blue Letter Bible  a place of honour or authority;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  on the right hand or side; fortunate; dexterous, ready, skillful, clever; courteous, kindly 

 

Think of = φρονω = phroneō  Blue Letter Bible   to direct one's mind to a thing, to seek, to strive for; to exercise the mind, i.e. entertain or have a sentiment or opinion; by implication, to be (mentally) disposed (more or less earnestly in a certain direction); intensively, to interest oneself in (with concern or obedience); set the affection on; regard, savour; think soberly; some habit of thought (expressed by deeds); to have understanding, be wise; to think or judge what one's opinion is; be careful, to be modest, not let one's opinion (though just) of himself exceed the bounds of modesty; to be of the same mind i.e. agreed together, cherish the same views, be harmonious; to direct one's mind to a thing, to seek, to strive for;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   have understanding, be wise, prudent; to be well disposed; think; feel by experience, know full well; to be minded to do; to have certain thoughts for or towards any one, to be so and so minded toward; comprehend; to be in possession of one's senses

 

earth = γ = gē  Blue Letter Bible  the ground, the earth as a standing place; the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals; the earth as opposed to the heavens; a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region; arable land; the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe; ground; the earthy material out of which a thing is formed, with the implied idea of frailty and weakness; things and beings that are on the earth, involving a suggestion of mutability, frailty, infirmity, alike in thought and in action;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   earth (including land and sea); land, country; ground as tilled; estate, farm; particular kinds of earth or minerals, e.g. fuller's earth

 

died = ποθνσκω = apothnēskō  Blue Letter Bible  to die off or out; dry up, perish by rotting; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  die; renounce  

 

life = ζω = zōē  Blue Letter Bible  the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate; of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical; life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  living, i.e. one's substance, property; way of life

 

hidden = κρπτω = kryptō   Blue Letter Bible  to cover, conceal, keep secret; to hide, conceal, to be hid;  escape notice; keep secret;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   secret character, concealed, deep seated 

 

appears, appear = φανερω = phaneroō   Blue Letter Bible  to make visible, clear, manifest," known; to uncover, lay bare, reveal; to make manifest or visible or known what has been hidden or unknown, to manifest, whether by words, or deeds, or in any other way; make actual and visible, realized; to become known, to be plainly recognized; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  make manifest; reveal, make clear; have been demonstrated; make known or famous; become so

 

glory = δξα = doxa  Blue Letter Bible opinion, judgment, view, estimate; splendour, brightness; magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace; majesty; most exalted state; honor; absolute perfection; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  the opinion which others have of one, estimation, repute; good repute, honour, glory; glory, splendor, magnificence, celestial beatitude

 

put to death = νεκρω = nekroō  Blue Letter Bible   destroying the strength of, depriving of power; to make dead; mortify; slay; deaden, subdue; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   make dead, mortify; to be dead

 

immorality = πορνεα = porneia Blue Letter Bible illicit sexual intercourse; figuratively, idolatry

 

impurity = καθαρσα = akatharsia  Blue Letter Bible   uncleanness; physically; in a moral sense the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living; impure motives; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   uncleanness, foulness, of a wound or sore; dirt, filth; in moral sense; ceremonial impurity

 

passion = πθος =  pathos  Blue Letter Bible  an affection of the mind, a passionate desire;  a feeling which the mind suffers; an affliction of the mind, emotion, passion; depraved passion, vile passions; lust;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   emotion, passion; sensation; emotional style

 

evil = κακς = kakos  Blue Letter Bible  evil; amiss; bad in character; base, malignant, destructive, injurious; Grievous, Grievously; harm; miserable; badly ill; noisome; of a bad nature; not such as it ought to be; base, wrong, wicked; troublesome, injurious, pernicious, destructive, baneful; worthless; depraved; wrong, crime; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  ugly, ill born, mean; craven, base; bad of his kind, i. e. worthless, sorry, unskilled; wretched; evil, pernicious; abusive, foul; unlucky; ill; trouble, pest, nuisance

 

desire = πιθυμα = epithymia  Blue Letter Bible  desire, craving, longing; strong desire of any kind; lusts; Such lusts are not necessarily base and immoral, they may be refined in character, but are evil if inconsistent with the will of God; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   desire, yearning, passion, appetite; longing after, inclination 

 

greed = πλεονεξα = pleonexia  Blue Letter Bible   covetousness; a desire to have more; desire for advantage; avarice; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   greediness, assumption, arrogance; a view to one's own advantage; a larger share of a thing; gain derived from a thing; excess

idolatry = εδωλολατρα = eidōlolatria Blue Letter Bible   the worship of false gods, idolatry

 

lying = ψεδομαι = pseudomai  Blue Letter Bible  to deceive by lies; to speak deliberate falsehoods; to utter an untruth or attempt to deceive by falsehood; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   cheat by lies, beguile; cheat, balk, disappoint one of a thing; represent a thing as a lie, falsify; lie, speak false, play false

 

taken off = πεκδομαι = apekdyomai Blue Letter Bible  to strip off clothes or arms; wholly put off from one's self; denoting separation from what is put off; to divest wholly oneself; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   strip off oneself; metaph., put off

 

put on = νδω = endyō  Blue Letter Bible clothe, wear; to sink into (clothing),  clothe one's self; array, endue; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon to go into; assume the person of; to enter, to press into; clothe

new self = νος = neos Blue Letter Bible "new," "sweet," "fresh," regenerate;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  young, youthful; new, fresh 

 

renewed = νακαινω = anakainoō  Blue Letter Bible   to make new; to be changed into a new kind of life as opposed to the former corrupt state; new strength and vigour is given to one; to cause to grow up, new, to make new

knowledge = πγνωσις = epignōsis  Blue Letter Bible   full, or thorough knowledge, discernment, recognition; exact or full knowledge, discernment, recognition; precise and correct knowledge; full discernment;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   recognition

 

image = εκν = eikon Blue Letter Bible   representation; manifestation; an image, figure, likeness; one in whom the likeness of any one is seen; resemblance; moral likeness; denotes not mere similarity but likeness; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   likeness, image; image in a mirror;  living image, representation; similitude, comparison; pattern, archetype


 

Alleluia Verse: Matthew 5:3

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

 

Blessed = μακριος = makarios  Blue Letter Bible  the highest good; happy;supremely blest; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  blessed, happy; bliss

 

poor = πτωχς = ptōchos  Blue Letter Bible  one who crouches and cowers; reduced to beggary, begging, asking alms; destitute of wealth, influence, position, honour; lowly, afflicted, destitute; helpless, powerless to accomplish an end; destitute of wealth of learning and intellectual culture; absolute or public mendicancyHenry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon Beggarly

 

spirit = πνεμα = pneuma  Blue Letter Bible  (1) Breath, wind; the vital principal by which the body is animated; a simple essence, devoid of all or at least all grosser matter, and possessed of the power of knowing, desiring, deciding, and acting (2)the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son; never referred to as a depersonalised force; God's power and agency; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  blast, wind; breeze or influence; breathed air, breath; breath of life; divine inspiration

 

kingdom = βασιλεα = basileia  Blue Letter Bible  sovereignty, royal power, dominion; denoting the ... people over whom a king rules; the right or authority to rule; reign; royal power and dignity; the rule of God; God's rule, the divine administration; the universe subject to God's sway, God's royal domain;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  dominion; being ruled by a king; reign 



 

Gospel: Luke 12:13-21    

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” 

Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.”

Then he told them a parable. 

“There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest.  He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?’ And he said, ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones.  There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’ But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’ Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what matters to God.”

 

Take care = ρω = horaō  Blue Letter Bible  to see with the eyes; to see with the mind, to perceive, know; to take heed, beware; to care for, pay heed to; to attend to;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   take, pay, or give heed; behold, perceive, observe; look out for, provide

guard = φυλσσω = phylassō  Blue Letter Bible   to guard, watch, keep, be on guard against; beware of, keep yourself from; to guard a person (or thing) that he may remain safe; to avoid, shun flee from; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   keep watch and ward, keep guard; defend; beware of, avoid; be cautious, prudent; bear it in mind;  act cautiously with regard to; take care lest; preserve, maintain, cherish

all = πς = pas Blue Letter Bible  radically means "all." Used without the article it means "every," every kind or variety; any and every, of every kind, all manner of; in every way or particular; the whole; each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything; thoroughly, whatsoever; all manner of; the highest degree, the maximum; always; in everything, in every way, on every side, in every particular or relation; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  when used of a number, all; when of one only, the whole; all, the whole; every; all things as a unity, as a totality; all kinds of things; in all points, entirely, wholly; in every way, by all means, altogether

 

greed = πλεονεξα = pleonexia  Blue Letter Bible   covetousness; a desire to have more; desire for advantage; avarice; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   greediness, assumption, arrogance; a view to one's own advantage; a larger share of a thing; gain derived from a thing; excess

rich = περισσεω = perisseuō  Blue Letter Bible Abundance, Abundant, Abundantly, Abound; exceeding a certain number, or measure, to be over; superfluity; to be pre-eminent, to excel; to make to abound; to be more than enough, to be pre-eminent, superior; to be over and above; remain; to exist or be at hand in abundance; a thing which comes in abundance, or overflows unto one, something falls to the lot of one in large measure; to be in affluence; to furnish one richly; to make excellent; to superabound; to cause to excel; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  to be over and above; to be more than enough, remain over; abundance; to be superfluous; more than enough of; to be better than; abound more and more; make to abound; make longer   

life = ζω = zōē  Blue Letter Bible  the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate; of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical; life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  living, i.e. one's substance, property; way of life

 

asked =διαλογζομαι = dialogizomai Blue Letter Bible To reason; to bring together different reasons, to reckon them up, to reason, discuss; chiefly of thoughts and considerations which are more or less objectionable; considerations not objectionable; mused; to bring together different reasons, to reckon up the reasons, to reason, revolve in one's mind, deliberate; cast in mind, consider, dispute, muse, reason, think;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  balance accounts; calculate exactly; consider; distinguish between; debate, argue; impute; hold a circuit court

 

himself = αυτο = heautou  Blue Letter Bible  in yourselves, in your own conceits; himself, herself, itself, themselves;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon     himself, herself, itself, etc.; itself by itself, absolutely; his own; one against the other

 

say = λγω = legō  Blue Letter Bible to say, to ask; commanding, or bidding; to call, to call by name; pronouncing, telling or relating; to gather, reckon, account; to tell;  affirm over, maintain; to exhort, advise, to command, direct; to call by name, to call, name; to "lay" forth; to asseverate, affirm, aver, maintain; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon  to say, speak; declare; to tell one to do; to speak to the point or purpose; to speak (emphatically)

 

myself = γ = egō  Blue Letter Bible I, me, my; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   I, for my part, for myself

and

ψυχ = psyche Blue Letter Bible the seat of personality; the breath of life; the vital force which animates the body; the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  life; the conscious self or personality as centre of emotions, desires, and affections; various aspects of the self; Psyche

 

rich = πλουτω = plouteō  Blue Letter Bible  to be rich, to have abundance, wealthy;to be richly supplied; affluent in resources so that he can give blessings; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon to be rich, wealthy; to be rich in a thing 

 

matters = ες = eis  Blue Letter Bible   unto the end; continual; into, unto, to, towards, for, among; directed toward, or looks to; in reference to something; with respect to, in reference to; as regards; the end which a thing is adapted to attain; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   towards, in regard to

 

Scriptures addressing similar principles are collected at Wisdom Principles--Stay Focused on God & What He Has Given You to Do; Don’t Be Distracted By Other Things

 

What these readings tell us about God/His ways:

You turn man back to dust

a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday

You make an end of them

morning they are like the changing grass, which at dawn springs up anew, but by evening wilts and fades.

the gracious care of the LORD you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God

When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self

being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator. 

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free

Christ is all and in all

Blessed are the poor in spirit

kingdom of heaven

one’s life does not consist of possessions

What these readings tell us to do:

hear his voice

hear his voice

hear his voice

hear his voice

shout for joy and gladness all our days.
the work of our hands 

the work of our hands
hear his voice

seek what is above, where Christ is 

Think of what is above

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly

taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self

poor in spirit

kingdom of heaven.

guard against all greed

rich in what matters to God

 

What these readings tell us not to do:

harden [] your hearts

harden [] your hearts

harden [] your hearts

harden [] your hearts

harden [] your hearts

immorality

impurity

passion

evil desire

greed

idolatry  

lying

say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry”

store up treasure for themselves

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