{"id":142370,"date":"2026-01-03T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142370"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:15:41","slug":"from-the-morning-bible-readings-1630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142370","title":{"rendered":"From the Morning Bible Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;&nbsp;they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;&nbsp;they have become callous and have given themselves up to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness.&nbsp;You did not so learn Christ!\u2014&nbsp;assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.&nbsp;Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,&nbsp;and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,&nbsp;and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.&nbsp;Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,&nbsp;and give no opportunity to the devil.&nbsp;Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.&nbsp;Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.&nbsp;And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.&nbsp;Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice,&nbsp;and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Ephesians 4:17-32<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Guten Morgen mit einer kleinen Winterimpression, heute aus Salzburg.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%C3%96sterreich?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u00d6sterreich<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ESpOu0H17N\">pic.twitter.com\/ESpOu0H17N<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Thomas Stiegler (@StieglerThomas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StieglerThomas\/status\/2007354107624075467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;&nbsp;they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142370\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142390,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142370\/revisions\/142390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}