{"id":1025,"date":"2015-09-14T20:01:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2015-09-13T20:46:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:46:18","slug":"tuesday-september-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, September 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Peter One One-Eleven<\/p>\n<p>Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:\u00a0 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,\u00a0 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,\u00a0 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.\u00a0\u00a0 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.\u00a0 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.\u00a0 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;\u00a0 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Troparion<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/a4.ocacdn.net\/js\/combined_540dd4ad40af3b521dca3357cc9a2b71.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/ga.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/use.typekit.com\/ydx6axp.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/a1.ocacdn.net\/js\/pre8828cb.js\"><\/script><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n_gaq.push(['_trackPageview'])\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>Greatmartyr Nicetas the Goth &#8211; Troparion &amp; Kontakion &#8211; Orthodox Church in America<\/p>\n<div id=\"container\">\n<div id=\"container-inner\">\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div class=\"body-w-sidebar clearfix\">\n<div id=\"main-col\">\n<div id=\"main-col-contents\">\n<article>\n<article>You defeated error and triumphed in martyrdom, \/ Nicetas, namesake of victory; \/ For you conquered the ranks of the enemy \/ And ended your contest by fire. \/ Pray to Christ our God to grant us His great mercy.<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Peter One One-Eleven Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}