Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
MEM
97 Oh how love I Your Law! It is my meditation continually.
98 By Your Commandments You have made me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.
99 I have had more understanding than all my teachers, for Your Testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understood more than the aged, because I kept Your Precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Your Word.
102 I have not turned away from Your Judgments, for You have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your promises to my mouth; yea, more than honey to my mouth!
104 By Your Precepts I have gotten understanding. Therefore, I hate all the ways of falsehood.
10 “Now I will arise,” says the LORD, “Now I will be exalted. Now I will lift Myself up.
11 “You shall conceive chaff and bring forth stubble. The fire of your breath shall devour you.
12 “And the people shall be as the burning of lime. And they shall be burnt in the fire, as the cut thorns.
13 “Hear, you who are far off, what I have done! And you who are near, know My power!”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. A fear has come upon the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with the everlasting burnings?
15 He who walks in justice, and speaks righteous things —refusing gain of oppression, shaking his hands from the taking of gifts, stopping his ears from hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing evil —
16 he shall dwell on high. His defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Bread shall be given to him. His waters shall be sure.
16 “You have not chosen Me. But I have chosen you, and ordained you, so that you go and bring forth fruits and that your fruit remains, so that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you.
17 “These things I command you, so that you love one another.
18 “If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before you.
19 “If you were of the world, the world would love his own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 “Remember the Word that I said to you, ‘the servant is not greater than his master’. If they have persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept My Word, they will also keep yours.
21 “But all these things they will do to you for My Name’s sake, because they have not known Him who sent Me.
22 “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin. But now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 “Whoever hates Me, hates My Father also.
24 “If I had not done works among those whom no other did, they would not have sin. Now, however, they have both seen and hated both My Father and Me.
25 But this is so the Word which is written in their Law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause’.
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