Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Adonai Magen

Psalm 7

⁷ “You, son of man, I have set you as a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear the word from My mouth, warn them from Me. ⁸ When I say to the wicked: ‘Wicked one, you will surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked about his way—that wicked one will die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. ⁹ If you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it and he does not turn from his way, then he will die in his iniquity—but you have saved your soul.

¹⁰ “You, son of man, say to the house of Israel: ‘You have said, “Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us and we are pining away in them. So how can we live.” ¹¹ Say to them: ‘As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Return, return from your evil ways. Why will you die, O house of Israel?’

¹² “You, son of man, say to the children of your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous person will not deliver him in the day of his transgression. Nor will the wickedness of the wicked person make him stumble in it on the day he turns away from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous person be able to live by it on the day he sins. ¹³ When I tell the righteous that he will surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered. But in his iniquity that he has committed, he will die. ¹⁴ When I say to the wicked, “You will surely die,” yet he turns from his sin and does what is just and right— ¹⁵ if the wicked restores a pledge, gives back what he had taken by robbery, walks in the laws of life, committing no iniquity—he will surely live, he will not die. ¹⁶ None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.’

¹⁷ “Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of Adonai isn’t fair!’ but it is their way, theirs that is unfair. ¹⁸ When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die in it. ¹⁹ When a wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live by it. ²⁰ Yet you say, ‘The way of Adonai is not fair!’ House of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his ways.”

¹⁹ Therefore Yeshua answered them, “Amen, amen I tell you, the Son cannot do anything by Himself. He can do only what He sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He does. He will show Him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever He wants. ²² The Father does not judge anyone, but has handed over all judgment to the Son ²³ so that all should honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴ “Amen, amen I tell you, whoever hears My word and trusts the One who sent Me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed over from death into life. ²⁵ Amen, amen I tell you, an hour is coming and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of Ben-Elohim. Those who hear will live! ²⁶ For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself. ²⁷ Also He has given the Son authority to judge, because He is the Son of Man.

²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice ²⁹ and come out!^[a] Those who have done good will come to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil will come to a resurrection of judgment. ³⁰ I can do nothing on My own. Just as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, for I do not seek My own will, but the will of the One who sent Me.”

The Father Testifies about the Son

³¹ “If I testify about Myself, My witness is not valid. ³² There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony He gives is true. ³³ You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ I do not receive the testimony of man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was the lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for a while in his light.

³⁶ “But the testimony I have is greater than that from John. The works the Father has given Me to finish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me. ³⁷ And the Father who sent Me has testified concerning Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form. ³⁸ Nor do you have His Word living in you, because you do not trust the One He sent. ³⁹ You search the Scriptures because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. It is these that testify about Me. ⁴⁰ Yet you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life!