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Book of Common Prayer

Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.
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Psalm 103

By David.

103 Praise Yahweh, my soul!
    All that is within me, praise his holy name!
Praise Yahweh, my soul,
    and don’t forget all his benefits,
who forgives all your sins,
    who heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from destruction,
    who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
who satisfies your desire with good things,
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Yahweh executes righteous acts,
    and justice for all who are oppressed.
He made known his ways to Moses,
    his deeds to the children of Israel.
Yahweh is merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
He will not always accuse;
    neither will he stay angry forever.
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
    nor repaid us for our iniquities.
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
    so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west,
    so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like a father has compassion on his children,
    so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
14 For he knows how we are made.
    He remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass.
    As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone.
    Its place remembers it no more.
17 But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him,
    his righteousness to children’s children,
18 to those who keep his covenant,
    to those who remember to obey his precepts.
19 Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens.
    His kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise Yahweh, you angels of his,
    who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word,
    obeying the voice of his word.
21 Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his,
    you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
22 Praise Yahweh, all you works of his,
    in all places of his dominion.
    Praise Yahweh, my soul!

Psalm 114-115

114 When Israel went out of Egypt,
    the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
Judah became his sanctuary,
    Israel his dominion.
The sea saw it, and fled.
    The Jordan was driven back.
The mountains skipped like rams,
    the little hills like lambs.
What was it, you sea, that you fled?
    You Jordan, that you turned back?
You mountains, that you skipped like rams?
    You little hills, like lambs?
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool of water,
    the flint into a spring of waters.

115 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
    but to your name give glory,
    for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God, now?”

But our God is in the heavens.
    He does whatever he pleases.

Their idols are silver and gold,
    the work of men’s hands.

They have mouths, but they don’t speak.
    They have eyes, but they don’t see.

They have ears, but they don’t hear.
    They have noses, but they don’t smell.

They have hands, but they don’t feel.
    They have feet, but they don’t walk,
    neither do they speak through their throat.

Those who make them will be like them;
    yes, everyone who trusts in them.

Israel, trust in Yahweh!
    He is their help and their shield.

10 House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh!
    He is their help and their shield.

11 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh!
    He is their help and their shield.

12 Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us.
    He will bless the house of Israel.
    He will bless the house of Aaron.

13 He will bless those who fear Yahweh,
    both small and great.

14 May Yahweh increase you more and more,
    you and your children.

15 Blessed are you by Yahweh,
    who made heaven and earth.

16 The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,
    but he has given the earth to the children of men.

17 The dead don’t praise Yah,
    nor any who go down into silence,

18 but we will bless Yah,
    from this time forward and forever more.
Praise Yah!

Deuteronomy 8:1-3

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

Colossians 1:1-14

Paul, an apostle of Christ[a] Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the saints and faithful brothers[b] in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints, because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth, even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your[c] behalf, who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, 14 in whom we have our redemption,[d] the forgiveness of our sins.

John 6:30-33

30 They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven[a] to eat.’”(A)

32 Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:48-51

48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

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