Readings for Lent and Easter

³ which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

⁴ We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.

⁵ For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded to our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

⁶ that the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children,

⁷ that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;

⁸ and so might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.