Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Praise to Yahweh for His Faithfulness in Israel’s History
106 Praise Yah.[a] Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loyal love is forever.
2 Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh,
or proclaim all his praise?
3 Blessed are those who observe justice,
he who does righteousness at all times.
4 Remember me, O Yahweh, when you show favor to your people.
Look after me when you deliver,
5 that I may see the good done your chosen ones,
to be glad in the joy of your nation,
to glory together with your inheritance.
6 We have sinned along with our ancestors.[b]
We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.
13 They quickly forgot his works;
they did not wait for his counsel.
14 And they craved intensely[a] in the wilderness,
and tested God in the desert.
15 So he gave to them their request,
but he sent leanness into their souls.[b]
16 And they were jealous of Moses in the camp,
and of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and it covered over the gang of Abiram.
18 Also fire burned in their assembly;
the flame devoured the wicked.
19 They made a calf at Horeb
and bowed down to a cast image.
20 And so they exchanged their glory
for an image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22 wonders in the land of Ham,
awesome deeds by the Red Sea.[c]
23 So he said he would exterminate them,
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him,
to reverse his wrath from destroying them.
47 Save us, O Yahweh our God,
and gather us from the nations,
so that we may give thanks to your holy name
and boast in your praise.
48 Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting and to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise Yah.[a]
21 “And Yahweh was angry with me because of you,[a] and he swore that I would not cross the Jordan[b] and that I would not go to the good land[c] that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance. 22 For I am going to die in this land; I am not going to cross the Jordan, but you are going to cross, and you are going to take possession of this good land. 23 Watch out for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had made[d] with you and make for yourselves a divine image of the form of anything that Yahweh your God has forbidden,[e] 24 for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous[f] God.
25 “When you have had children and grandchildren[g] and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger, 26 I call[h] to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you are crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; you will not live long on it,[i] but you will be completely destroyed. 27 And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number[j] among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you.[k] 28 And you will there serve gods made by human hands,[l] of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell. 29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.[m] 30 In your distress[n] when[o] all these things have found you in the latter days,[p] then[q] you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. 31 For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you,[r] and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors[s] that he swore to them.
32 “Yes, ask, please, about former days that preceded you[t] from the day that God created humankind on the earth; ask even from one end of the heaven up to the other end of heaven whether anything ever happened[u] like this great thing or whether anything like it was ever heard.[v] 33 Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived? 34 Or has a god ever attempted to go to take for himself[w] a nation from the midst of a nation, using trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 You yourselves[x] were shown this wonder in order for you to acknowledge that Yahweh is the God;[y] there is no other God besides him.[z] 36 From heaven he made you hear his voice to teach you, and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved your ancestors[aa] he chose their descendants[ab] after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt with his own presence,[ac] by his great strength, 38 to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you from before you,[ad] to bring you and to give to you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 So you shall acknowledge today,[ae] and you must call to mind[af] that Yahweh is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other God. 40 And you shall keep his rules and his commandments that I am commanding you today,[ag] so that it may go well[ah] for you and for your children[ai] after you, and so that you may remain a long time[aj] on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you during all of those days.”
9 And he said to them, “You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep[a] your tradition. 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’[b] and, ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die[c].’[d] 11 But you say, ‘If a man says to his[e] father or to his[f] mother, “Whatever benefit you would have received[g] from me is corban”[h] (that is, a gift to God), 12 you no longer permit him to do anything for his[i] father or his[j] mother, 13 thus[k] making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar things such as this.”
Defilement from Within
14 And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by[l] going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person.”[m] 17 And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything that is outside that goes into a person is not able to defile him? 19 For it does not enter into his heart but into his[n] stomach, and goes out into the latrine”—thus[o] declaring all foods clean. 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person, that defiles a person. 21 For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, acts of greed, malicious deeds, deceit, licentiousness, envy,[p] abusive speech, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”
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