Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁰ Hear the Word of the LORD, O princes of Sodom! Listen to the Law of our God, O people of Gomorrah!

¹¹ “What have I to do with the multitude of your sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full of the Burnt Offerings of rams, and of the fat of fed beasts. And I do not desire the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of goats.

¹² “When you come to appear before Me, who required this of your hands, to trample upon My courts?

¹³ “Bring no more oblations in vain. Incense is an abomination to Me. I cannot abide iniquitous new moons, or Sabbath, solemn days or solemn assemblies.

¹⁴ “My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵ “And when you shall stretch out your hands, I will hide My Eyes from you. And though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶ “Wash yourself and make yourself clean. Take away the evil of your works from before My Eyes. Cease to do evil.

¹⁷ “Learn to do well. Seek judgment. Relieve the oppressed. Govern the fatherless. Defend the widow.

¹⁸ “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins were as crimson, they shall be made white as snow. Though they were red like scarlet, they shall be as wool.

32 Blessed is he whose wickedness is forgiven; whose sin is covered.

² Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

³ When I held my tongue (my bones being consumed when I roared all day,

⁴ for Your hand is heavy upon me day and night) and my moisture turned into the drought of Summer (Selah),

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I thought, “I will confess to the LORD my wickedness against myself.” And You forgave the punishment of my sin. Selah.

⁶ Therefore, everyone who is godly shall make his prayer to You in a time when You may be found. Surely, in the flood of great waters they shall not come near him.

⁷ You are my Secret Place. You preserve me from trouble. You surround me with joyful deliverance. Selah.

1 Paul and Silvanus, and Timothy, To the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ:

² Grace be with you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ We ought to thank God always for you, brothers (as is fitting), because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you toward each other abounds.

⁴ So that we ourselves rejoice over you in the churches of God because of your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you suffer.

¹¹ Therefore, we pray always for you that our God may make you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness, and the work of faith, with power;

¹² so that the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

19 Now when Jesus entered and passed through Jericho,

² behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, who was the chief receiver of the tribute. And he was rich.

³ And he sought to see Jesus (who He was) and could not because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

⁴ Therefore he ran ahead and climbed up into a wild fig tree, so that he might see Him. For He would be coming that way.

⁵ And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus! Come down at once! For today I must stay at your house!”

⁶ Then he quickly came down and received Him joyfully.

⁷ And when they all saw it, they murmured, saying that He had gone to lodge with a sinful man.

⁸ But Zacchaeus, standing, said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have taken from anyone by false accusation, I restore it to him fourfold.”

⁹ Then Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house! Because he has also become the son of Abraham!

¹⁰ “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save those who have been lost.”