Romans 9:1-5

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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel

9 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying,^(A) my conscience confirms^(B) it through the Holy Spirit— ²I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ³For I could wish that I myself^(C) were cursed^(D) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,^(E) those of my own race,^(F) ⁴the people of Israel.^(G) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;^(H) theirs the divine glory,^(I) the covenants,^(J) the receiving of the law,^(K) the temple worship^(L) and the promises.^(M) ⁵Theirs are the patriarchs,^(N) and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,^(O) who is God over all,^(P) forever praised!^[a]^(Q) Amen.

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Romans 9:5 Or Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! Or Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!

Psalm 147:13-20

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¹³He strengthens the bars of your gates^(A)
and blesses your people^(B) within you.
¹⁴He grants peace^(C) to your borders
and satisfies you^(D) with the finest of wheat.^(E)

¹⁵He sends his command^(F) to the earth;
    his word runs^(G) swiftly.
¹⁶He spreads the snow^(H) like wool
    and scatters the frost^(I) like ashes.
¹⁷He hurls down his hail^(J) like pebbles.
    Who can withstand his icy blast?
¹⁸He sends his word^(K) and melts them;
    he stirs up his breezes,^(L) and the waters flow.

¹⁹He has revealed his word^(M) to Jacob,^(N)
his laws and decrees^(O) to Israel.
²⁰He has done this for no other nation;^(P)
they do not know^(Q) his laws.^[a]

Praise the Lord.^(R)

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Psalm 147:20 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint nation; / he has not made his laws known to them

Luke 14:1-6

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Jesus at a Pharisee’s House^(A)

14 One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee,^(B) he was being carefully watched.^(C) ²There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. ³Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law,^(D) “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”^(E) ⁴But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.

⁵Then he asked them, “If one of you has a child^[a] or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?”^(F) ⁶And they had nothing to say.

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