Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

128 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in His ways.

² When you eat the labors of your hands, you shall be blessed; and it shall be well with you.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

⁴ Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

⁵ The LORD out of Zion shall bless you; and you shall see the wealth of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶ Indeed, you shall see your children’s children. Peace upon Israel. A song of degrees

²² “Therefore say to the House of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do this for your sakes, O House of Israel, but for My Holy Name’s sake, which you polluted among the heathen, wherever you went.

²³ “And I will sanctify My great Name, which was polluted among the heathen, among whom you have polluted it. And the heathen shall know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

²⁴ “For I will take you from among the heathen and gather you out of all countries and will bring you into your own land.

²⁵ “Then I will pour clean water upon you; and you shall be clean. From all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you.

²⁶ “I will also give you a new heart; and a new spirit will I put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your body; and I will give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷ “And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My Statutes. And you shall keep My Judgments and do them.

²⁸ “And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be My people. And I will be your God.

²⁹ “I will also deliver you from all your filthiness. And I will call for grain, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

³⁰ “For I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the increase of the field, so that you shall no longer bear the reproach of famine among the heathen.

³¹ “Then you shall remember your own wicked ways, and your deeds that were not good, and shall judge yourselves worthy to have been destroyed for your iniquities and for your abominations.

³² “Be it known to you that I do not do this for your sakes,” says the Lord GOD, “O you House of Israel! Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways!”

⁵³ And each went to his own house.

8 But, Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

² And early in the morning, He came into the Temple again. And all the people came to Him. And He sat down and taught them.

³ Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman taken in adultery. And setting her in their midst,

⁴ they said to Him, “Master, we found this woman committing adultery, even in the very act.

⁵ “Now Moses, in our Law, commanded that such should be stoned. What do You say, therefore?”

⁶ Now they said this to tempt Him, so that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus, having stooped down, wrote on the ground with His finger.

⁷ And while they continued asking Him, He lifted Himself up, and said to them, “Let the one among you without sin cast the first stone at her.”

⁸ And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.

⁹ And when they heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, they went out, one by one, beginning at the eldest, until the last. And Jesus was left alone, with the woman, standing in the midst.

¹⁰ When Jesus had lifted Himself up again, and saw no one except the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Nor do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”