Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery^[a]: we will not all fall-asleep. But we will all be changed— ⁵² in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will trumpet, and the dead will be raised undecayable^[b], and we will be changed. ⁵³ For this decayable body must put-on undecayability, and this mortal body must put on immortality^[c]. ⁵⁴ And when this decayable body puts-on undecayability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying having been written will come-about^[d]: “Death was swallowed-up in victory” [Isa 25:8]. ⁵⁵ “Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your stinger?” [Hos 13:14]. ⁵⁶ Now the stinger^[e] of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law^[f]. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, the One giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

So Abound In The Work of The Lord; Your Labor Is Not In Vain

⁵⁸ So then my beloved brothers, be^[g] steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty^[h] in the Lord.

The Blind Cannot Guide The Blind. Correct Yourself First

³⁹ And He also spoke a parable to them— “A blind one is not able to guide a blind one, is he? Will they not both fall into a pit? ⁴⁰ A disciple is not above the teacher. But everyone having been fully-trained will be like his teacher. ⁴¹ And why do you look-at the speck in the eye of your brother, but do not consider^[a] the log in your own eye? ⁴² How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, permit me to take-out the speck in your eye’, while yourself not seeing the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take out the log from your eye. And then you will see-clearly to take out the speck in the eye of your brother.

A Tree Is Known By Its Fruit. The Mouth Speaks From The Heart

⁴³ “For there is no good^[b] tree producing bad fruit; nor again, a bad tree producing good fruit. ⁴⁴ For each tree is known^[c] by its own fruit. For they do not collect figs from thorns, nor do they gather a grape-bunch from a bramble-bush. ⁴⁵ The good person brings forth the good thing out of the good treasure^[d] of his heart. And the evil person brings forth the evil thing out of his evil treasure. For his mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart.

Don’t Just Call Me Lord. Be a Doer of My Words

⁴⁶ “And why are you calling Me ‘Lord, Lord^[e]’, and you are not doing the things which I say? ⁴⁷ Everyone coming to Me and hearing My words and doing them— I will show you to whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house who dug, and went down deep, and laid a foundation on the bed-rock. And a flood^[f] having come about, the river broke-against^[g] that house. And it was not strong-enough to shake it, because it had been built well. ⁴⁹ But the one having heard and not having done My words is like a man having built a house on the ground without a foundation, which the river broke-against. And immediately it collapsed, and the breakage of that house became great”.