Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
18 “(A)You shall therefore take these words of mine to [a]heart and to soul; and you shall tie them as a sign on your [b]hand, and they shall be as [c]frontlets [d]on your forehead. 19 (B)You shall also teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. 20 (C)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that (D)your days and the days of your sons may be increased on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as [e](E)long as the heavens are above the earth.
26 “(A)See, I am placing before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the (B)blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today; 28 and the (C)curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, [a]by following other gods which you have not known.
A Psalm of Complaint and of Praise.
For the music director. A Psalm of David.
31 (A)In You, Lord, I have taken refuge;
Let me never (B)be [a]put to shame;
(C)In Your righteousness rescue me.
2 (D)Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly;
Be a (E)rock of [b]strength for me,
A [c]stronghold to save me.
3 For You are my rock and (F)my fortress;
For the (G)sake of Your name You will lead me and guide me.
4 You will (H)pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my (I)strength.
5 (J)Into Your hand I entrust my spirit;
You have (K)redeemed me, Lord, (L)God of [d]truth.
19 How great is Your (A)goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have performed for those who (B)take refuge in You,
(C)Before the sons of mankind!
20 You hide them in the (D)secret place of Your presence from the (E)conspiracies of mankind;
You keep them secretly in a [a]shelter from the (F)strife of tongues.
21 (G)Blessed be the Lord,
For He has shown His (H)marvelous faithfulness to me in a besieged (I)city.
22 As for me, (J)I said in my alarm,
“I am (K)cut off from Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You (L)heard the sound of my pleadings
When I called to You for help.
16 For I am not (A)ashamed of the gospel, for (B)it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the (C)Jew first and also to (D)the Greek. 17 For in it (E)the righteousness of God is revealed [a]from faith to faith; as it is written: “[b](F)But the righteous one will live by faith.”
22 but it is the (A)righteousness of God through (B)faith (C)in Jesus Christ for (D)all those [a]who believe; for (E)there is no distinction, 23 for all [b](F)have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified as a gift (G)by His grace through (H)the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God displayed publicly as (I)a [c]propitiation [d](J)in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, [e]because in God’s merciful (K)restraint He (L)let the sins previously committed go unpunished; 26 for the demonstration, that is, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who [f]has faith in Jesus.
27 Where then is (M)boasting? It has been excluded. By (N)what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 [g]For (O)we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from works [h]of the Law.
29 Or (A)is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed (B)God (C)who will justify the [a]circumcised [b]by faith and the [c]uncircumcised through faith (D)is one.
31 Do we then nullify [d]the Law through faith? (E)Far from it! On the contrary, we (F)establish the Law.
21 “(A)Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 (B)Many will say to Me on (C)that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; (D)leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
The Two Foundations
24 “Therefore, (E)everyone who hears these words of Mine, and [b]acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell and the [c]floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not [d]act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell and the [e]floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and its collapse was great.”
28 [f](F)When Jesus had finished these words, (G)the crowds were amazed at His teaching; 29 for He was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
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