Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

^97 [a]I truly love your law.
    It is my meditation throughout the day.
^98 [b]Your precept has given me greater wisdom than my enemies,
    for it is mine forever.
⁹⁹ I am wiser than all my teachers
    because I meditate on your commands.
¹⁰⁰ I have greater insight than the elders,^[c]
    because I keep your commandments.
¹⁰¹ I point my feet away from evil paths
    so that I might observe your word.
¹⁰² I refuse to ignore your judgments,
    for it is you yourself who have taught me.
¹⁰³ Your words are sweet to my palate,
    even sweeter to my tongue than honey.^[d]
104 Through your commandments I achieve wisdom;
    therefore, I hate every way that is false.

¹⁰ Now I will rise up, says the Lord.
    Now I will be exalted,
    now I will be lifted up.
¹¹ You conceive chaff and give birth to stubble;
    like fire my Spirit will devour you.
¹² The peoples will be burned as though by lime,
    like thorns that have been cut
    and consumed in the fire.
¹³ You who are far away,
    listen to what I have done,
and you who are near,
    acknowledge my strength.
¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are filled with terror;
    trembling has seized the godless.
“Can any of us survive the devouring fire?
    Can any of us survive the everlasting flames?”
¹⁵ Those who walk righteously and speak honestly,
    who refuse to enrich themselves by extortion,
who reject any bribes offered to them
    and stop their ears from listening to plans for murder
    and shut their eyes from looking on evil—
¹⁶ these people will dwell on the heights;
    their refuge will be rocky cliffs,
where they will have an abundance of food and water.

¹⁶ “You did not choose me.
Rather, I chose you.
And I appointed you
to go out and bear fruit,
fruit that will remain,
so that the Father may give you
whatever you ask him in my name.
¹⁷ The command I give you is this:
love one another.

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,
be aware that it hated me
before it hated you.
¹⁹ If you belonged to the world,
the world would love you as its own.
But you do not belong to the world
because I have chosen you out of the world,
and therefore the world hates you.
²⁰ “Remember the word that I said to you:
‘a servant is not greater than his master.’
If they persecuted me,
they will persecute you.
If they kept my word,
they will keep yours as well.
²¹ But they will do all these things to you
on account of my name,
because they do not know the one who sent me.
²² “If I had not come
and spoken to them,
they would not be guilty of sin,
but now they have no excuse for their sin.
²³ Whoever hates me
hates my Father also.
²⁴ If I had not done works among them
that no one else had ever done,
they would not be guilty of sin.
But now they have seen and hated
both me and my Father.
²⁵ All this was to fulfill the word
that is inscribed in their Law:
‘They hated me without cause.’