Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
5 Hear my words, O LORD. Understand my meditation.
2 Hear the voice of my cry, my King and my God. For to you I pray.
3 Hear my voice in the morning, O LORD. In the morning I will direct myself to You, and I will wait.
4 For You are not a God Who loves wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with You.
5 The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all those who work iniquity.
6 You shall destroy those who speak lies. The LORD will abhor the bloody man, and deceitful.
7 But I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy. In Your fear I will worship toward Your Holy Temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies. Make Your way plain before my face.
9 For no constancy is in their mouth. Inside they are very corruption. Their throat is an open sepulcher. They flatter with their tongue.
10 Destroy them, O God. Let them fall from their counsels. Cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities, because they have rebelled against You.
11 And let all those who trust in You rejoice, and triumph forever. And cover them. And let those who love Your Name rejoice in You.
12 For You, LORD, will bless the righteous. You will surround him with favor, as with a shield. To him who excels on Neginoth, upon the eight tune: A Psalm of David.
21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent. And the sweetness of the lips shall increase doctrine.
22 Understanding is a wellspring of life to those who have it. And the instruction of fools is folly.
23 The heart of the wise guides his mouth wisely, and adds doctrine to his lips.
24 Fair words are as a honeycomb: sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.
25 There is a way that seems right to man; but the ends thereof are the ways of death.
26 The person who labors, labors for himself; for his mouth craves it from him.
27 A wicked man digs up evil. And in his lips is like burning fire.
28 A crooked person sews strife. And a murmurer makes division among friends.
29 A wicked man deceives his neighbor and leads him into the way that is not good.
30 He shuts his eyes to devise wickedness. He purses his lips and brings about evil.
31 Age is a crown of glory when it is found in the way of righteousness.
32 He who is slow to anger, is better than the mighty man. And he who rules his own mind, is better than he who wins a city.
33 The lot is cast into the lap. But the whole disposition thereof is from the LORD.
15 Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,
2 “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
3 But He answered and said to them, “And why do you transgress the Commandment of God by your tradition?
4 “For God has commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and mother. And the one who curses father or mother, let him die the death.’
5 “But you say, ‘Whoever shall say to father or mother, “By the gift that is offered by me,” you may have profit;
6 though he does not honor his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you have made the Commandment of God of no authority.
7 “O hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying,
8 “‘This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with the lips, but their heart is far away from Me.
9 ‘But they worship Me in vain, teaching men’s precepts as doctrines.’”
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