Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Thanksgiving to Yahweh for Victory
A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.[a]
92 It is good to give thanks to Yahweh,
and to sing praise concerning your name, O Most High;
2 to declare in the morning your loyal love
and your faithfulness in the night,
3 on the ten string, and on the harp,
with a melody on the lyre.
4 For you, O Yahweh, have made me glad by your work;
by the deeds of your hands I sing for joy.
5 How great are your deeds, O Yahweh;
how very deep are your thoughts.
6 The brutish man does not know,
and the fool cannot understand this.
7 When the wicked flourish like grass
and all the workers of evil blossom,
it is so they can be destroyed forever.
8 But you are on high forever, O Yahweh.
9 For behold, your enemies, O Yahweh,
for behold, your enemies will perish.
All the workers of evil will be scattered.
10 But you have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox;
you have anointed me[b] with fresh oil.
11 And so my eye looks on my enemies.[c]
My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me.
12 The righteous[d] will flourish like the date palm.
They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Planted in the house[e] of Yahweh,
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still prosper in old age.
They will be fat and luxuriant,[f]
15 to declare that Yahweh is upright.
He is my rock, and there is no injustice[g] in him.
3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them, 4 then[a] I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. 5 And for you the threshing season shall overtake the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall overtake the sowing, and you shall eat your food to your fill[b] and you shall live securely[c] in your land. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be anybody who makes you afraid,[d] and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword shall pass through your land.[e] 7 And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.[f] 8 And five of[g] you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of[h] you shall pursue a myriad;[i] and your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.[j] 9 And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you. 10 And you shall eat old grain,[k] and you shall clear away the old before the new.[l] 11 And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self[m] shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God,[n] and you shall be my people.[o] 13 I am Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly.
Punishment for Disobedience
14 “‘But[p] if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out[q] all these commands, 15 and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self[r] abhors my regulations, to not carry out[s] all my commands by your breaking my covenant, 16 I in turn[t] will do this to you: then[u] I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed in vain,[v] and your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated before[w] your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but[x] there shall not be anybody who is pursuing[y] you.
18 “‘And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then[z] I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron[aa] and your land like copper. 20 And your strength shall be consumed in vain;[ab] and your land shall not give its produce, and the land’s trees shall not give their fruit.
Appeal for Continuing Sanctification
4 Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more. 2 For you know what commands we gave to you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 not to transgress and to exploit his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the one who avenges concerning all these things, just as also we told you beforehand and testified solemnly. 7 For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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