Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
92 It is a good thing to praise the LORD, and to sing to Your Name, O Most High,
2 to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your truth in the night,
3 upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the viol, with the song upon the harp.
4 For You, LORD, have made me glad by Your works; and I will rejoice in the works of Your hands.
5 O LORD, how glorious are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.
6 An unwise man does not know it; and a fool does not understand this:
7 that when the wicked grow as the grass and all the workers of wickedness flourish, they shall be destroyed forever.
8 But You, O LORD, are Most High forevermore.
9 For lo, Your enemies, O LORD. For lo, Your enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall be destroyed.
10 But You shall exalt my horn, like the unicorns, and I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Also, my eye shall see my desire against my enemies; and my ears shall hear my wish against the wicked who rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree and shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Such as are planted in the House of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age. They shall be fat and flourishing,
15 to declare that the LORD my Rock is righteous and that no iniquity is in Him.
28 “If you shall diligently obey the Voice of the LORD your God and observe and do all His Commandments which I command you this day, then the LORD your God will set you on high, above all the nations of the Earth.
2 “And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall obey the Voice of the LORD your God.
3 “Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed also in the field.
4 “Blessed shall the fruit of your body be, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.
5 “Blessed shall your basket be, and your dough.
6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed also when you go out.
7 “The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise against you to fall before your face. They shall come out against you one way and shall flee before you seven ways.
8 “The LORD shall Command the blessing to be with you in your store houses and in all to which you set your hand and will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
9 “The LORD shall make you a holy people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you shall keep the Commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
10 “Then all people of the Earth shall see that the Name of the LORD is called upon over you. And they shall be afraid of you.
11 “And the LORD shall make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to give you.
12 “The LORD shall open His good treasure to you, the heavens to give rain to your land in due season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations but shall not borrow yourself.
13 “And the LORD shall make you the head and not the tail. And you shall only be above, and shall not be beneath, if you obey the Commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day, to keep and to do.
14 “But you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord: that you henceforth do not walk as other Gentiles walk (in the frivolity of their mind,
18 having their understanding darkened, and being strangers to the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart);
19 who, having grown numb to all feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness for the working of uncleanness with all greediness.
20 But, you have not so learned Christ,
21 if indeed you have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, just as truth is in Jesus.
22 As for your past life, you are to cast off the old man who is being corrupted through deceitful desires,
23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
24 And put on the new man, who has been created according to God for righteousness and true holiness.
25 Therefore, having laid aside lying, everyone speak truth to his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
26 Be angry, but do not sin. Do not let the Sun go down upon your irritation,
27 nor give place to the devil.
28 Let him who stole, steal no more. But rather, let him labor and work with his hands that which is good, so that he may have something to give to those in need.
29 Let no worthless word proceed out of your mouth, but only if it is good for edification, so that it may give grace to those who hear.
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom you are sealed for the Day of Redemption.
31 Let all bitterness and fury and anger, clamor and slander, be taken from you, along with all wickedness.
32 Be kind one to another, and tender-hearted, freely forgiving one another; even as God, for Christ’s sake, freely forgave you.
5 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children.
2 And walk in love, just as Christ has loved us and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savor to God.
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