Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 92[a]
A psalm; a song for the Sabbath day.
92 It is fitting[b] to thank the Lord,
and to sing praises to your name, O Most High.[c]
2 It is fitting[d] to proclaim your loyal love in the morning,
and your faithfulness during the night,
3 to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre,
to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.
4 For you, O Lord, have made me happy by your work.
I will sing for joy because of what you have done.[e]
12 The godly[a] grow like a palm tree;
they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.[b]
13 Planted in the Lord’s house,
they grow in the courts of our God.
14 They bear fruit even when they are old;
they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.[c]
15 So they proclaim that the Lord, my Protector,
is just and never unfair.[d]
13 A wise son accepts his father’s discipline,[a]
but a scoffer[b] has never listened to[c] rebuke.
2 From the fruit of his speech[d] a person eats good things,[e]
but the treacherous[f] desire[g] the fruit of violence.[h]
3 The one who guards his words[i] guards his life;
whoever is talkative[j] will come to ruin.[k]
4 The appetite[l] of the sluggard[m] craves[n] but gets nothing,
but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.[o]
5 The righteous person will reject[p] anything false,[q]
but the wicked person will act in shameful disgrace.[r]
6 Righteousness[s] guards the one who lives with integrity,[t]
but wickedness[u] overthrows the sinner.
7 There is one who pretends to be rich[v] and yet has nothing;
another pretends to be poor[w] and yet possesses great wealth.[x]
8 The ransom[y] of a person’s[z] life is his wealth,
thus the poor person has never heard[aa] a threat.[ab]
9 The light[ac] of the righteous shines brightly,[ad]
but the lamp[ae] of the wicked goes out.[af]
10 With pride[ag] comes only[ah] contention,
but wisdom is with the well-advised.[ai]
11 Wealth gained quickly[aj] will dwindle away,[ak]
but the one who gathers it little by little[al] will become rich.[am]
12 Hope[an] deferred[ao] makes the heart sick,[ap]
but a longing fulfilled[aq] is like[ar] a tree of life.
The Amplification of Justification
12 So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people[a] because[b] all sinned— 13 for before the law was given,[c] sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin[d] when there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type[e] of the coming one) transgressed.[f] 15 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression.[g] For if the many died through the transgression of the one man,[h] how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many! 16 And the gift is not like the one who sinned.[i] For judgment, resulting from the one transgression,[j] led to condemnation, but[k] the gracious gift from the many failures[l] led to justification. 17 For if, by the transgression of the one man,[m] death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
18 Consequently,[n] just as condemnation[o] for all people[p] came[q] through one transgression,[r] so too through the one righteous act[s] came righteousness leading to life[t] for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man[u] many[v] were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of one man[w] many[x] will be constituted righteous. 20 Now the law came in[y] so that the transgression[z] may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination
6 What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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