Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
ב BETH
9 How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.
10 With my whole heart I have (A)sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
11 (B)Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.
12 Blessed are You, O Lord!
Teach me Your statutes.
13 With my lips I have (C)declared
All the judgments of Your mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on Your precepts,
And [a]contemplate Your ways.
16 I will (D)delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.
8 (A)Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
And the (B)deaf who have ears.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together,
And let the people be assembled.
(C)Who among them can declare this,
And show us former things?
Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified;
Or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”
10 “You(D) are My witnesses,” says the Lord,
(E)“And My servant whom I have chosen,
That you may know and (F)believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
Nor shall there be after Me.
11 I, even I, (G)am the Lord,
And besides Me there is no savior.
12 I have declared and saved,
I have proclaimed,
And there was no (H)foreign god among you;
(I)Therefore you are My witnesses,”
Says the Lord, “that I am God.
13 (J)Indeed before the day was, I am He;
And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand;
I work, and who will (K)reverse it?”
The Spirit, Not the Letter
4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 (A)Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but (B)our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as (C)ministers of (D)the new covenant, not (E)of the letter but of the [a]Spirit; for (F)the letter kills, (G)but the Spirit gives life.
Glory of the New Covenant
7 But if (H)the ministry of death, (I)written and engraved on stones, was glorious, (J)so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will (K)the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry (L)of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.
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