May 9, 2027

Seventh Sunday of Easter

• First Reading: * Acts 1:15-17, 21-26

• Psalm: Psalm 1

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  ¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

  ²But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

  ³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

  ⁴The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

  ⁵Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

  ⁶For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

• Second Reading: 1 John 5:9-13

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  ¹Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

  ²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

  ³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

  ⁴For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

  ⁵Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

  ⁶This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

  ⁷For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

  ⁸And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

  ⁹If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

  ¹⁰He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

  ¹¹And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

  ¹²He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

  ¹³These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

  ¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

  ¹⁵And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

  ¹⁶If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

  ¹⁷All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

  ¹⁸We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

  ¹⁹And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

  ²⁰And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  ²¹Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

• Gospel: John 17:6-19

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  ¹These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

  ²As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

  ³And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

  ⁴I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

  ⁵And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

  ⁶I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

  ⁷Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

  ⁸For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

  ⁹I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

  ¹⁰And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

  ¹¹And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

  ¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

  ¹³And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

  ¹⁴I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  ¹⁵I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

  ¹⁶They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  ¹⁷Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

  ¹⁸As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

  ¹⁹And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

  ²⁰Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

  ²¹That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

  ²²And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

  ²³I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

  ²⁴Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

  ²⁵O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

  ²⁶And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.