Friday in Epiphany

6Verse 6. Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people. 7Verse 7. Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD. 8Verse 8. At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you. 9Verse 9. When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water. 10Verse 10. Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. 11Verse 11. And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. 12Verse 12. And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.” 13Verse 13. The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people. 14Verse 14. Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

1Verse 1. At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment. 2Verse 2. He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people and prayed to God regularly. 3Verse 3. One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!” 4Verse 4. Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God. 5Verse 5. Now send men to Joppa to call for a man named Simon who is called Peter. 6Verse 6. He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea. ” 7Verse 7. When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants. 8Verse 8. He explained what had happened and sent them to Joppa.