Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Let God’s Enemies Be Scattered

For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song.

The Offering of Isaac

22 Now it happened after these things, that ^(A)God tested Abraham and said to him, “^(B)Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” ² Then He said, “Take now ^(C)your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and ^(D)go forth to the land of ^(E)Moriah, and offer him there as a ^(F)burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” ³ So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. ⁴ On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance. ⁵ And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there; and we will worship, and we will return to you.” ⁶ Then Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and ^(G)put it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.

⁷ Then Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the ^(H)lamb for the burnt offering?” ⁸ And Abraham said, “God will ^[a]provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

⁹ Then they came to ^(I)the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built ^(J)the altar there and arranged the wood and bound his son Isaac and ^(K)put him on the altar, on top of the wood. ¹⁰ And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. ¹¹ But ^(L)the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” ¹² And He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do nothing to him; for now ^(M)I know that you ^[b]fear God, since you have not withheld ^(N)your son, your only one, from Me.” ¹³ Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there was a ram after it had been caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of that place ^[c]Yahweh Will Provide, as it is said this day, “In the mount of Yahweh ^(O)it will ^[d]be provided.”

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

2 Then after fourteen years I ^(A)went up again to Jerusalem with ^(B)Barnabas, taking ^(C)Titus along also. ² And I went up ^[a]because of a ^(D)revelation, and I laid out to them the ^(E)gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, lest somehow I might be ^(F)running, or had run, in vain. ³ But not even ^(G)Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was ^(H)compelled to be circumcised. ⁴ But this was because of the ^(I)false brothers secretly brought in, who ^(J)had sneaked in to spy out our ^(K)freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to ^(L)enslave us. ⁵ But we did not yield in subjection to them for even ^[b]a moment, so that ^(M)the truth of the gospel would remain with you. ⁶ But from those who ^[c]were of high ^(N)reputation (what they were makes no difference to me; ^(O)God ^[d]shows no partiality)—well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me. ⁷ But on the contrary, seeing that I had been ^(P)entrusted with the ^(Q)gospel ^[e]to the uncircumcised, just as ^(R)Peter had been ^[f]to the circumcised ⁸ (for He who worked in Peter unto his ^(S)apostleship ^[g]to the circumcised worked in me also unto the Gentiles), ⁹ and recognizing ^(T)the grace that had been given to me, ^(U)James and ^(V)Cephas and ^[h]John, who were ^(W)reputed to be ^(X)pillars, gave to me and ^(Y)Barnabas the ^(Z)right ^[i]hand of fellowship, so that we might ^(AA)go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ Only they asked us to remember the poor—^(AB)the very thing I also was eager to do.