Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
5 Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 (A)Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
(B)your judgements are like the great deep;
man and beast you (C)save, O Lord.
7 (D)How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
The children of mankind take refuge (E)in the shadow of your wings.
8 They feast on (F)the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from (G)the river of (H)your delights.
9 For with you is (I)the fountain of life;
(J)in your light do we see light.
10 Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who (K)know you,
and your righteousness to (L)the upright of heart!
19 “‘I said,
How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would (A)call me, My Father,
and would not turn from following me.
20 (B)Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,
so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.’”
21 A voice on the (C)bare heights is heard,
(D)the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons
because they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.
22 (E)“Return, O faithless sons;
(F)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
23 Truly (G)the hills are a delusion,
the orgies[a] on the mountains.
(H)Truly in the Lord our God
is the salvation of Israel.
24 “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers laboured, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 (I)Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonour cover us. For (J)we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
Principles for Marriage
7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: (A)“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 (B)The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 (C)Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, (D)so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 Now as a concession, (E)not a command, I say this.[a] 7 (F)I wish that all were (G)as I myself am. But (H)each has his own gift from God, (I)one of one kind and one of another.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.