Lectionary Theme: Education Sunday - Education for Transformation of Life - Fifteenth Sunday after the Feast of Pentecost
September 06 2026
1. My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
2. making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3. if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding;
4. if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures—
5. then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
6. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7. he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,
8. guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.
9. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10. for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11. prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.
12. It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,
18. For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20. Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21. For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe.
22. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom,
23. but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
24. but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
3. His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
4. Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature.
5. For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge,
6. and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness,
7. and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
8. For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9. For anyone who lacks these things is short-sighted and blind, and is forgetful of the cleansing of past sins.
10. Therefore, brothers and sisters, be all the more eager to confirm your call and election, for if you do this, you will never stumble.
11. For in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you.
1. Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God,
2. he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
3. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
4. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
5. Simon answered, “Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.”
6. When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break.
7. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.
8. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
9. For he and all who were with him were amazed at the catch of fish that they had taken;
10. and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”
11. When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him. Jesus Cleanses a Leper