Today's readings: Gen 37; Mk 7; Job 3; Ro 7
Gen 37:21 When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying, “Letʼs not take his life!”
Gen 37:26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Job 3:25 For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
Romans 7:5-6 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.