Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
78 Hear my doctrine, O my people. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will declare high sentences of old
3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children; but to the generation to come we will show the praise of the LORD, His power also, and His wonderful works that He has done.
5 How He established a testimony in Jacob and ordained a Law in Israel. Which He commanded our fathers that they should teach their children,
6 so that the posterity might know it and the children which should be born should stand up and declare it to their children.
7 So that they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His Commandments.
8 So that they not be as their fathers (a disobedient and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful to God).
17 But, they still sinned against Him and provoked the Highest in the wilderness
18 and tempted God in their hearts, requiring food for their lust.
19 They also spoke against God, saying, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 “Behold, He struck the rock so that the water gushed out and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread, or prepare flesh for His people?”
21 Therefore, the LORD heard and was angry, and the fire was kindled in Jacob; and wrath also came upon Israel
22 because they did not believe in God and did not trust in His help.
23 Still, He had commanded the clouds above, and had opened the doors of Heaven,
24 and had rained down manna upon them to eat and had given them of the wheat of Heaven.
25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food enough.
26 He caused the east wind to pass in the sky; and through His power He brought in the south wind.
27 He also rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the sea.
28 And He made it fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.
29 So they ate and were well-filled; for He gave them their desire.
8 “You shall keep all the Commandments which I command you this day, to do them, so that you may live and be multiplied and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.
2 “And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His Commandments or not.
3 “Therefore, He humbled you and made you hungry and fed you with manna, which you did not know (nor did your fathers know it), so that He might teach you that man lived not by bread only. But by every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of the LORD does a man live.
4 “Your clothing did not grow old upon you, nor did your foot swell, those forty years.
5 “Know, therefore, in your heart, that as a man nurtures his son, so the LORD your God nurtures you.
6 “Therefore, you shall keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may walk in His ways, and fear Him.
7 “For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land in which are rivers of water and fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and mountains,
8 “a land of wheat and barley and of vineyards and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of oil, olive and honey,
9 “a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity and in which you shall lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose mountains you shall dig brass.
10 “And when you have eaten and filled yourself, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.
8 First, I thank my God (through Jesus Christ) for you all, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness (whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of His Son) that without ceasing I make mention of you,
10 always imploring in my prayers that by some means, at one time or other, I might have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come to you.
11 For I long to see you, that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift, that you might be strengthened.
12 That is to say that I might also be comforted with you, through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.
13 Now, my brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant of how often I have intended to come to you (but have been hindered) that I might also have some fruit among you, as I have among the other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor, both to the Greeks and to the barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise.
15 Therefore, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.
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