Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Lead Me in Your Truth

Of David.

Aleph

Beth

Gimel

Daleth

He / Vav

Zayin

Heth

Teth

Yodh

⁵ “But if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness, ⁶ and does not ^(A)eat at the mountain shrines or ^(B)lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or ^(C)defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period— ⁷ if a man does not mistreat anyone, but ^(D)returns to the debtor his pledge, ^(E)does not commit robbery, but ^(F)gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing, ⁸ if he does not lend money on ^(G)interest or take ^(H)increase, if he turns his hand from injustice and ^(I)does true justice between man and man, ⁹ if he walks in ^(J)My statutes and My judgments and is careful to do the truth—^(K)he is righteous and will surely ^(L)live,” declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁰ “Then he may ^[a]have a violent son who sheds blood and who does any of these things to a brother ¹¹ (though he himself did not do any of these things), that is, he even eats at the mountain shrines and ^(M)defiles his neighbor’s wife; ¹² he mistreats the ^(N)afflicted and needy, ^(O)commits robbery, does not return a pledge, but lifts up his eyes to the idols and ^(P)does abominations; ¹³ he ^(Q)lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has done all these abominations; he will surely be put to death; his ^(R)blood will be on himself.

¹⁴ “Now behold, he ^[b]has a son who has seen all his father’s sins which he has done. And he ^(S)saw this but does not do likewise. ¹⁵ He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife ¹⁶ or mistreat anyone, or retain a pledge or commit robbery, but he ^(T)gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing; ¹⁷ he turns his hand away from ^[c]the afflicted, does not take interest or increase, but does My judgments and walks in My statutes; ^(U)he will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live. ¹⁸ As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was not good among his people, behold, he will die for his iniquity.

³² And we ^(A)proclaim to you the good news of ^(B)the promise made to the fathers, ³³ that God has fulfilled this promise ^[a]to our children in that He ^(C)raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘^(D)You are My Son; today I have begotten You.’ ³⁴ But that He ^(E)raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to corruption, He has spoken in this way: ‘^(F)I will give you the holy and ^[b]faithful lovingkindnesses of David.’ ³⁵ Therefore He also says in another Psalm, ‘^(G)You will not give Your ^[c]Holy One over to see corruption.’ ³⁶ For ^(H)David, after he had ^[d]served ^(I)the purpose of God in his own generation, ^(J)fell asleep and was laid among his fathers and saw corruption; ³⁷ but He whom God ^(K)raised did not see corruption. ³⁸ Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that ^(L)through ^[e]Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, ³⁹ and that in Him, ^(M)everyone who believes is justified from all things which you could not be justified from ^[f]through the Law of Moses. ⁴⁰ Therefore watch out, so that the thing spoken of ^(N)in the Prophets may not come upon you: