Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
The Lord Be Praised
111 Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart where those who are right with God gather together and in the meeting of the people. 2 The works of the Lord are great. All who find joy in them try to understand them. 3 His work is great and powerful. And He is right and good forever. 4 He has made His great works to be remembered. The Lord shows loving-favor and pity. 5 He gives food to those who fear Him. He will remember His agreement forever. 6 He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the land of other nations.
7 The works of His hands are faithful and right. All His Laws are true. 8 They stand strong forever and ever. They are done by what is true and right. 9 He has made a way for His people to be free. He has set up His agreement forever. His holy name is to be honored with fear. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All who obey His Laws have good understanding. His praise lasts forever.
Laws about the House Where the Person with a Bad Skin Disease Lived
33 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for your own, and I put a mark of a bad skin disease on a house in your land, 35 then the one who owns the house will come and tell the religious leader, ‘I see something like a mark of a bad skin disease in my house.’ 36 Then the religious leader will tell them to empty the house before he goes in to look at the mark, so he will not say that everything in the house is unclean. After this the religious leader will go in to look at the house. 37 He will look at the mark of the disease. If the mark is in the walls of the house with green or red spots deep in the walls, 38 the religious leader will go out the door and shut up the house for seven days. 39 He will come again on the seventh day and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house, 40 the religious leader will tell them to tear out the stones with the disease in them and throw them away outside the city at an unclean place. 41 He will have the walls and floors of the house cleaned inside. And they will take the pieces that are rubbed off to an unclean place outside the city. 42 Then they will take other stones to put in the place of those stones. And he will cover the walls with a new covering.
43 “If the disease comes again in the house, after he has taken out the stones, cleaned the house inside and covered the walls again, 44 then the religious leader will come and look. If the disease has spread in the house, it is a very bad disease in the house. It is unclean. 45 He will tear down the house, its stones, wood, and all the covering of the house. And he will take the pieces outside the city to an unclean place. 46 Anyone who goes into the house during the time it is shut up will be unclean until evening. 47 Whoever lies down in the house will wash his clothes. And whoever eats in the house will wash his clothes.
48 “But the religious leader may come in and find that the disease has not spread in the house after its walls have been covered again. Then the religious leader will say the house is clean, because the mark of the disease cannot be seen. 49 He will take two birds, cedar wood, a red string and hyssop to make the house clean. 50 He will kill one of the birds in a clay pot over flowing water. 51 Then he will take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the red string, with the live bird, and put them in the blood of the killed bird and in the flowing water. And he will put some of the blood and water on the house seven times. 52 He will make the house clean with the blood of the bird, the flowing water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the red string. 53 He will let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he will take away sin from the house, and it will be clean.”
13 Keep all the things I taught you. They were given to you in the faith and love of Jesus Christ. 14 Keep safe that which He has trusted you with by the Holy Spirit Who lives in us.
Onesiphorus Was Faithful
15 I am sure you have heard that all the Christians in the countries of Asia have turned away from me. Phygelus and Hermogenes turned away also. 16 Onesiphorus was not ashamed of me in prison. He came often to comfort me. May the Lord show loving-kindness to his family. 17 When he came to Rome, he looked everywhere until he found me. 18 You know what a help he was to me in Ephesus. When the Lord comes again, may He show loving-kindness to Onesiphorus.
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