Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
50 The God of gods, The LORD, has spoken and called the Earth, from the rising up of the Sun to the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, has God shined.
3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. A fire shall devour before Him, and a mighty storm shall be moved around Him.
4 He shall call the heaven above and the Earth, to judge His people.
5 “Gather My saints together to Me, those who make a covenant with Me with sacrifice.”
6 And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge Himself. Selah.
7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak. Hear, O Israel, and I will testify to you. I am God. Your God.
8 “I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings continually before me.
9 “I will take no bullock out of your house, nor goats out of your folds.
10 “For all the beasts of the forest are Mine, the beasts on a thousand mountains.
11 “I know all the birds on the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
12 “If I am hungry, I will not tell you. For the world is Mine and all that therein is.
13 “Will I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14 “Offer praise to God; and pay your vows to the Most High.
15 “And call upon Me on the day of trouble. I will deliver you and you shall glorify Me.”
16 But to the wicked God said, “Why have you declared My ordinances, that you would take My Covenant in your mouth,
17 “seeing you hate to be reformed and have cast My words behind you?
18 “For when you see a thief, you run with him; and you are partaker with the adulterers.
19 “You give your mouth to evil; and with your tongue you forge deceit.
20 “You sit and speak against your brother and slander your mother’s son.
21 “These things you have done; and I held My tongue. Therefore, you thought that I was like you. But I will rebuke you and set them in order before your eyes.
22 “Oh, consider this, you who forget God; lest I tear you in pieces and there are none who can deliver you.
23 “He who offers praise shall glorify Me. And to him who sets his way aright, I will show the salvation of God.” To him who excels: A Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone into Bathsheba.
13 And on that day, they read in the Book of Moses, in the audience of the people. And in it was found written that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not enter into the Congregation of God
2 because they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them, so that he would curse them. And our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3 Now, when they had heard the Law, they separated from Israel all those who were mixed.
23 Also in those days, I saw Jews who married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
24 And half their children spoke in the language of Ashdod and could not speak in the Jews’ language (and according to the language of the people), but of other people.
25 Then I reproved them and cursed them and struck some of them and pulled out their hair and took an oath from them by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons. Nor shall you take of their daughters to your sons or for yourselves.
26 “Did not Solomon, the king of Israel, sin by these things? Yet, there was no king like him among many nations. For he was beloved by his God. And God had made him king over Israel. Yet, strange women caused him to sin.
27 “Shall we then obey you, to do all this great evil, and to transgress against our God, to marry strange wives?”
28 And of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the High Priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. But I chased him from me.
29 Remember them, O my God, who defile the Priesthood and the Covenant of the Priesthood, and of the Levites.
30 Then I cleansed them from all strangers and appointed the duties of the priests and of the Levites (each one in his service),
31 and for the offering of the wood at the times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, in goodness.
9 I wrote to you in the epistle that you should not associate with the sexually immoral,
10 (that is not to say with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the covetous, or with swindlers, or with idolaters. For then you must go out of the world).
11 But now I have written to you that you do not associate if anyone who is called a “brother” is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a verbal abuser, or a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a one do not even eat.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
13 But God judges those who are outside. Therefore, cast out the wicked from among yourselves.
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