(~) Bible Readings for Sunday Feb. 13

First Sunday in Lent

Genesis 2:4b-9,15-17,25-3:7
Romans 5:12-19(20-21)
Matthew 4:1-11

Old Testament Genesis 2:4b-9,15-17,25-3:7

In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant
of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung
up-- for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there
was no one to till the ground; but a stream would rise from the earth, and
water the whole face of the ground-- then the LORD God formed man from the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
the man became a living being. And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden,
in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Out of the
ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight
and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The LORD God took the man and
put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the LORD God
commanded the man, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the
day that you eat of it you shall die." And the man and his wife were both
naked, and were not ashamed.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the LORD
God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, `You shall not eat from
any tree in the garden'?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of
the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said, `You shall not eat of
the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you
touch it, or you shall die.'" But the serpent said to the woman, "You will
not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its
fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her,
and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for
themselves.

The Epistle Romans 5:12-19(20-21)

As sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin,
and so death spread to all because all have sinned-- sin was indeed in the
world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law. Yet
death exercised dominion from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins
were not like the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one who was
to come. But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died