Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
106 Praise the LORD because He is good; for His mercy endures forever!
2 Who can express the noble acts of the LORD, or proclaim all His praise?
3 Blessed are those who guard justice and do righteousness at all times.
4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favor of Your people. Visit me with Your salvation,
5 so that I may see the good things of Your chosen and rejoice in the joy of Your people, and glory with Your inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our Fathers. We have committed iniquity and done wickedly.
13 But they soon forgot His works. They did not wait for His counsel,
14 but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert.
15 Then He gave them their desire. But He sent leanness into their soul.
16 They also envied Moses in the tents, and Aaron, the saint of the LORD.
17 The Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.
18 And the fire was kindled in their assembly; the flame burnt up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image.
20 Thus, they turned their glory into the likeness of a bullock that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,
22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore, He intended to destroy them had not Moses, His chosen, stood in the breach before Him, to turn away His wrath lest He should destroy them.
47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, so that we may praise Your Holy Name and glory in Your praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, forever and ever; and let all the people say, “So be it! Praise the LORD!”
21 “And the LORD was angry with me for your words and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
22 “For I must die in this land and shall not go over Jordan. But you shall go over and possess that good land.
23 “Guard yourselves, lest you forget the Covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and you make any graven image or likeness of anything, as the LORD your God has charged you.
24 “For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
25 “When you shall bear children and children’s children and shall have remained long in the land, if you corrupt yourselves and make any graven image out of anything and work evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger,
26 “I call Heaven and Earth to record against you this day, that you shall shortly perish from the land to which you go over Jordan to possess. You shall not prolong your days there, but shall be utterly destroyed.
27 “And the LORD shall scatter you among the people. And you shall be left few in number among the nations where the LORD shall bring you.
28 “And there you shall serve gods, the work of man’s hand—wood and stone—which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
29 “But if, from then on, you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find Him. If you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 “When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon you, at the end of the day, if you return to the LORD your God and be obedient to His Voice,
31 “(for the LORD your God is a merciful God) He will not forsake you or destroy you or forget the Covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
32 “For inquire now about the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the Earth, and whether there has been as great a thing as this from the one end of Heaven to the other, or whether anything like this has been heard.
33 “Did people ever hear the Voice of God speaking out of the midst of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?
34 “Or has God attempted to go and take a nation for Himself from among nations—by temptations, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty Hand, by an outstretched Arm, and by great fear—according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 “To you it was shown, so that you might know that the LORD He is God, that there is none but He alone.
36 “Out of Heaven He made you hear His Voice to instruct you. And upon Earth He showed you His great fire. And you heard His Voice out of the midst of the fire.
37 “And because He loved your fathers, He therefore chose their seed after them. And He has brought you out of Egypt in His sight, by His mighty power,
38 “to thrust out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for inheritance, as it happens this day.
39 “Understand, therefore, this day, and consider in your heart that the LORD Himself is God in Heaven above, and upon the Earth beneath. There is no other.
40 “You shall therefore keep His Ordinances and His Commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you and that you may prolong your days upon the Earth which the LORD your God gives you forever.”
9 And He said to them, “You reject the Commandment of God, that you may observe your own tradition.
10 “For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your Mother. And whoever shall speak evil of father or mother, let him die the death.’
11 “But you say, ‘If a man says to father or mother, ‘Corban’(that is, ‘By the gift that is offered by me, you may have profit), he shall be free.’
12 “So you don’t require him to do anything for his father or his mother,
13 “making the Word of God of no authority by your tradition which you have ordained. And you do many such things.”
14 Then He called the whole multitude to Him, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand!
15 “There is nothing outside of a man that can defile him when it enters into him. But the things which proceed out of him are those which defile the man.
16 “If any have ears to hear, let him hear.”
17 And when He came into a house, away from the people, his disciples asked Him about the parable.
18 And He said to them, “What? Are you without understanding also? Do you not know that whatever thing enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
19 “because it did not enter into his heart, but into the belly. And it goes out into the draught, which is the purging of all food?”
20 Then He said, “That which comes out of man, that defiles man.
21 “For from within, even out of the heart of man, proceeds evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 “thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishness.
23 “All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
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