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Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
Duration: 1245 days
Contemporary English Version (CEV)
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Psalm 150

The Lord Is Good to His People

1 Shout praises to the Lord!
    Praise God in his temple.
Praise him in heaven,
    his mighty fortress.
2 Praise our God!
His deeds are wonderful,
    too marvelous to describe.

3 Praise God with trumpets
    and all kinds of harps.
4 Praise him with tambourines
    and dancing,
with stringed instruments
    and woodwinds.
5 Praise God with cymbals,
    with clashing cymbals.
6 Let every living creature
praise the Lord.
    Shout praises to the Lord!

Hosea 5:15-6:6

15 Then I'll return to my temple
until they confess their guilt
    and worship me,
until they are desperate
    and beg for my help.

The Lord's People Speak

6 Let's return to the Lord.
    He has torn us to shreds,
but he will bandage our wounds
    and make us well.
2 In two or three days
    he will heal us
and restore our strength
    that we may live with him.
3 Let's do our best
    to know the Lord.
His coming is as certain
    as the morning sun;
he will refresh us like rain
renewing the earth
    in the springtime.

The Lord Speaks to Israel and Judah

4 People of Israel and Judah,
    what can I do with you?
Your love for me disappears
more quickly than mist
    or dew at sunrise.
5 That's why I slaughtered you
with the words
    of my prophets.
That's why my judgments blazed
    like the dawning sun.[a]
6 (A) I'd rather for you to be faithful
and to know me
    than to offer sacrifices.

2 John 1-6

1 From the church leader.[a]

To a very special woman and her children.[b] I truly love all of you, and so does everyone else who knows the truth. 2 We love you because the truth is now in our hearts, and it will be there forever.

3 I pray that God the Father and Jesus Christ his Son will be kind and merciful to us! May they give us peace and truth and love.

Truth and Love

4 I was very glad to learn that some of your children are obeying the truth, as the Father told us to do. 5 (A) Dear friend, I am not writing to tell you and your children to do something you have not done before. I am writing to tell you to love each other, which is the first thing you were told to do. 6 Love means we do what God tells us. And from the beginning, he told you to love him.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

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