Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of Your compassions, put away my iniquities.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity; and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my iniquities; and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against You, against You only, have I sinned and done evil in Your sight; that You may be just when You speak and pure when You judge.
5 Behold, I was born in iniquity; and in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You love truth to the core. Therefore, You have taught me wisdom in my core.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness; so that the bones which You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your Face from my sins; and put away all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence; and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation; and establish me with Your free Spirit.
13 Then I shall teach Your ways to the wicked; and sinners shall be converted to You.
14 Deliver me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing joyfully of Your righteousness.
15 Open my lips, O LORD, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16 For You desire no sacrifice, though I would give it. You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit. A contrite and a broken heart, O God, You will not despise.
18 Be favorable to Zion for Your good pleasure. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shall You accept the sacrifices of righteousness, the burnt offering and oblation. Then shall they offer calves upon Your altar. To him who excels: A Psalm of David to give instruction, when Doeg the Edomite came and showed Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
10 “And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to you, with great and beautiful cities which you did not build,
11 “and houses full of all manner of goods which you did not fill, wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant. And you have eaten and are full.
12 “Beware, lest you forget the LORD, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 “You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve Him, and shall swear by His Name.
14 “You shall not walk after other gods, the gods of the people who are all around you
15 “(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the wrath of the LORD your God be kindled against you and destroy you from the face of the Earth.
16 “You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted Him in Massah.
17 “You shall diligently keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, and His Testimonies and His Ordinances which He has commanded you.
18 “And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that you may prosper, and that you may go in and possess that good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
19 “to cast out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
20 “When your son shall ask you in the future, saying, ‘What do these Testimonies and Ordinances and Laws which the LORD our God has Commanded you mean?’
21 “Then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. But the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.
22 ‘And the LORD showed great and unpleasant signs and wonders before our eyes, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
23 ‘and brought us out from there, to bring us in and to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
24 ‘Therefore, the LORD has Commanded us to do all these Ordinances, to fear the LORD our God, so that it may go well with us, and that He may preserve us alive at the present time.
25 ‘Moreover, this shall be our righteousness before the LORD our God, if we take heed to keep all these Commandments, as He has Commanded us.’
17 Repay no one evil for evil. Provide honorably in the sight of all mankind.
18 If it is possible, as much as you can, be at peace with all mankind.
19 Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves; but give Wrath its opportunity. For it is written, “Vengeance is Mine. I will repay”, says the Lord.
20 Therefore, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing, you shall heap coals of fire on his head.”
21 Be not overcome by evil. But, overcome evil with good.
8 Owe nothing to anyone, except to be loving one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the Law.
9 For these: ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet’ - as well as any other Commandment - are summed up in this saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’.
10 Love does no evil to his neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.
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