Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 95[a]
95 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord.
Let us shout out praises to our Protector who delivers us.[b]
2 Let us enter his presence[c] with thanksgiving.
Let us shout out to him in celebration.[d]
3 For the Lord is a great God,
a great king who is superior to[e] all gods.
4 The depths of the earth are in his hand,[f]
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down and worship.[g]
Let us kneel before the Lord, our Creator.
7 For he is our God;
we are the people of his pasture,
the sheep he owns.[h]
Today, if only you would obey him.[i]
8 He says,[j] “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah,[k]
like they were that day at Massah[l] in the wilderness,[m]
9 where your ancestors challenged my authority,[n]
and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
10 For forty years I was continually disgusted[o] with that generation,
and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray;[p]
they do not obey my commands.’[q]
11 So I made a vow in my anger,
‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”[r]
9 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole community[a] of the Israelites, ‘Come[b] before the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings.’”
10 As Aaron spoke[c] to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the wilderness, there the glory of the Lord[d] appeared[e] in the cloud, 11 and the Lord spoke to Moses, 12 “I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘During the evening[f] you will eat meat,[g] and in the morning you will be satisfied[h] with bread, so that you may know[i] that I am the Lord your God.’”[j]
13 In the evening the quail[k] came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp. 14 When[l] the layer of dew had evaporated,[m] there on the surface of the wilderness was a thin flaky substance,[n] thin like frost on the earth. 15 When[o] the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,[p] “What is it?” because they did not know what it was.[q] Moses said to them, “It is the bread[r] that the Lord has given you for food.[s]
16 “This is what[t] the Lord has commanded:[u] ‘Each person is to gather[v] from it what he can eat, an omer[w] per person[x] according to the number[y] of your people;[z] each one will pick it up[aa] for whoever lives[ab] in his tent.’” 17 The Israelites did so, and they gathered—some more, some less. 18 When[ac] they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.
19 Moses said to them, “No one[ad] is to keep any of it[ae] until morning.” 20 But they did not listen to Moses; some[af] kept part of it until morning, and it was full[ag] of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them. 21 So they gathered it each morning,[ah] each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.[ai]
New Life Corporately
11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body[a] by human hands— 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah,[b] alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,[c] having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.[d] 14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one[e] and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, 15 when he nullified[f] in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man[g] out of two,[h] thus making peace, 16 and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.[i] 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near, 18 so that[j] through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, 20 because you have been built[k] on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,[l] with Christ Jesus himself as[m] the cornerstone.[n] 21 In him[o] the whole building,[p] being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
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