Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ Then the Prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah — in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the House of the LORD —

⁶ the Prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! The LORD so do! The LORD confirm your words which you have prophesied, to restore the vessels of the LORD’s House, and all that was carried captive from Babel, into this place.

⁷ “But hear now this Word that I will speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people.

⁸ “The Prophets who have been before me, and before you, in time past, prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war and of plagues and of pestilence.

⁹ “The Prophet who prophesies of peace, when the Word of the Prophet shall come to pass, it shall be known of that Prophet that the LORD has truly sent him.”

89 I will sing the mercies of the LORD forever. With my mouth I will declare Your truth from generation to generation.

² For I said, “Mercy shall be set up forever. Your truth shall You establish in the very heavens.

³ “I have made a covenant with My Chosen. I have sworn to David My servant,

⁴ “‘Your Seed will I establish forever and set up your Throne from generation to generation.’” Selah.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people who can rejoice in You. They shall walk in the light of Your countenance, O LORD.

¹⁶ They shall rejoice continually in Your Name; and in Your righteousness they shall exalt themselves.

¹⁷ For You are the glory of their strength; and by Your favor our horns shall be exalted.

¹⁸ For our shield belongs to the LORD, and our King to the Holy One of Israel.

¹² Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts;

¹³ nor give the parts of your body to sin, as weapons of unrighteousness. But give yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead. And give the parts of your body to God, as weapons of righteousness.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you. For you are not under the Law, but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Absolutely not!

¹⁶ Do you not know that to whomever you give yourselves as servants, to obey, you are his servants whom you obey; whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷ Thanks be to God that, although you had been the servants of sin, you have obeyed (from the heart) the type of doctrine by which you were delivered.

¹⁸ Being then made free from sin, you are made the servants of righteousness.

¹⁹ I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. For as you have given the parts of your body over as servants to impurity and lawlessness, to commit lawlessness, so now give the parts of your body over as servants to righteousness in holiness.

²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were freed from righteousness.

²¹ What fruit did you then have in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²² But now, being freed from sin, and made servants to God, you have your fruit in holiness; and in the end, everlasting life.

²³ For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁴⁰ “The one who receives you, receives Me. And the one who receives Me, receives Him Who sent Me.

⁴¹ “The one who receives a Prophet in the name of a Prophet, shall receive a Prophet’s reward. And the one who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive the reward of a righteous man.

⁴² “And whoever shall give one of these little ones merely a cup of cold water to drink (in the name of a disciple), truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”