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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.
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Psalm 119:97-104

מ Mem

97 Oh, how I love your law!(A)
    I meditate(B) on it all day long.
98 Your commands are always with me
    and make me wiser(C) than my enemies.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
    for I meditate on your statutes.(D)
100 I have more understanding than the elders,
    for I obey your precepts.(E)
101 I have kept my feet(F) from every evil path
    so that I might obey your word.(G)
102 I have not departed from your laws,(H)
    for you yourself have taught(I) me.
103 How sweet are your words to my taste,
    sweeter than honey(J) to my mouth!(K)
104 I gain understanding(L) from your precepts;
    therefore I hate every wrong path.(M)

Cross references

  1. Psalm 119:97 : S ver 47
  2. Psalm 119:97 : S ver 15
  3. Psalm 119:98 : ver 130; S Dt 4:6; Ps 19:7; 2Ti 3:15
  4. Psalm 119:99 : ver 15
  5. Psalm 119:100 : S ver 56; S Dt 6:17
  6. Psalm 119:101 : Pr 1:15
  7. Psalm 119:101 : S ver 57
  8. Psalm 119:102 : S Dt 17:20
  9. Psalm 119:102 : S Dt 4:5
  10. Psalm 119:103 : S Ps 19:10
  11. Psalm 119:103 : Pr 24:13-14
  12. Psalm 119:104 : S Ps 111:10
  13. Psalm 119:104 : ver 128
Nehemiah 9:1-15

The Israelites Confess Their Sins

9 On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.(A) 2 Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners.(B) They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.(C) 3 They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day, and spent another quarter in confession and in worshiping the Lord their God. 4 Standing on the stairs of the Levites(D) were Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani and Kenani. They cried out with loud voices to the Lord their God. 5 And the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: “Stand up and praise the Lord your God,(E) who is from everlasting to everlasting.[a]”

“Blessed be your glorious name,(F) and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. 6 You alone are the Lord.(G) You made the heavens,(H) even the highest heavens, and all their starry host,(I) the earth(J) and all that is on it, the seas(K) and all that is in them.(L) You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven(M) worship you.

7 “You are the Lord God, who chose Abram(N) and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans(O) and named him Abraham.(P) 8 You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites.(Q) You have kept your promise(R) because you are righteous.(S)

9 “You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt;(T) you heard their cry at the Red Sea.[b](U) 10 You sent signs(V) and wonders(W) against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated them. You made a name(X) for yourself,(Y) which remains to this day. 11 You divided the sea before them,(Z) so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths,(AA) like a stone into mighty waters.(AB) 12 By day(AC) you led(AD) them with a pillar of cloud,(AE) and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

13 “You came down on Mount Sinai;(AF) you spoke(AG) to them from heaven.(AH) You gave them regulations and laws that are just(AI) and right, and decrees and commands that are good.(AJ) 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath(AK) and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses. 15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven(AL) and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock;(AM) you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand(AN) to give them.(AO)

Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:5 Or God for ever and ever
  2. Nehemiah 9:9 Or the Sea of Reeds

Cross references

  1. Nehemiah 9:1 : Lev 26:40-45; S Jos 7:6; 2Ch 7:14-16
  2. Nehemiah 9:2 : S Ezr 6:21; Ne 10:28; 13:3, 30
  3. Nehemiah 9:2 : S Lev 26:40; S Ezr 10:11; Ps 106:6
  4. Nehemiah 9:4 : S Ezr 10:23
  5. Nehemiah 9:5 : Ps 78:4
  6. Nehemiah 9:5 : S 2Sa 7:26
  7. Nehemiah 9:6 : S Dt 6:4
  8. Nehemiah 9:6 : S Ex 8:19
  9. Nehemiah 9:6 : Isa 40:26; 45:12
  10. Nehemiah 9:6 : S Ge 1:1; Isa 37:16
  11. Nehemiah 9:6 : Ps 95:5; 146:6; Jnh 1:9
  12. Nehemiah 9:6 : Dt 10:14; Ac 4:24; Rev 10:6
  13. Nehemiah 9:6 : Ps 103:20; 148:2
  14. Nehemiah 9:7 : S Ge 16:11
  15. Nehemiah 9:7 : S Ge 11:28
  16. Nehemiah 9:7 : S Ge 17:5
  17. Nehemiah 9:8 : S Ge 15:18-21; S Ezr 9:1
  18. Nehemiah 9:8 : S Jos 21:45
  19. Nehemiah 9:8 : Ge 15:6; S Ezr 9:15
  20. Nehemiah 9:9 : Ex 2:23-25; 3:7
  21. Nehemiah 9:9 : Ex 14:10-30
  22. Nehemiah 9:10 : S Ex 10:1; Ps 74:9
  23. Nehemiah 9:10 : S Ex 3:20; S 6:6
  24. Nehemiah 9:10 : Jer 32:20; Da 9:15
  25. Nehemiah 9:10 : S Nu 6:27
  26. Nehemiah 9:11 : Ps 78:13
  27. Nehemiah 9:11 : S Ex 14:28
  28. Nehemiah 9:11 : Ex 15:4-5, 10; Heb 11:29
  29. Nehemiah 9:12 : S Dt 1:33
  30. Nehemiah 9:12 : S Ex 15:13
  31. Nehemiah 9:12 : S Ex 13:21
  32. Nehemiah 9:13 : S Ex 19:11
  33. Nehemiah 9:13 : S Ex 19:19
  34. Nehemiah 9:13 : S Ex 20:22
  35. Nehemiah 9:13 : Ps 119:137
  36. Nehemiah 9:13 : S Ex 20:1; Dt 4:7-8
  37. Nehemiah 9:14 : S Ge 2:3; Ex 20:8-11
  38. Nehemiah 9:15 : S Ex 16:4; Ps 78:24-25; Jn 6:31
  39. Nehemiah 9:15 : Ex 17:6; Nu 20:7-13
  40. Nehemiah 9:15 : S Ge 14:22
  41. Nehemiah 9:15 : Dt 1:8, 21
Ephesians 5:21-6:9

Instructions for Christian Households(A)

21 Submit to one another(B) out of reverence for Christ.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands(C) as you do to the Lord.(D) 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,(E) his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands(F) in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives,(G) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her(H) 26 to make her holy,(I) cleansing[a] her by the washing(J) with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself(K) as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.(L) 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives(M) as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body.(N) 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b](O) 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife(P) as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.(Q) 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”[c](R)

4 Fathers,[d] do not exasperate your children;(S) instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.(T)

5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect(U) and fear, and with sincerity of heart,(V) just as you would obey Christ.(W) 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ,(X) doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,(Y) 8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do,(Z) whether they are slave or free.

9 And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours(AA) is in heaven, and there is no favoritism(AB) with him.

Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:26 Or having cleansed
  2. Ephesians 5:31 Gen. 2:24
  3. Ephesians 6:3 Deut. 5:16
  4. Ephesians 6:4 Or Parents

Cross references

  1. Ephesians 5:21 : 5:22-6:9pp — Col 3:18-4:1
  2. Ephesians 5:21 : Gal 5:13; 1Pe 5:5
  3. Ephesians 5:22 : Ge 3:16; 1Co 14:34; Col 3:18; 1Ti 2:12; Tit 2:5; 1Pe 3:1, 5, 6
  4. Ephesians 5:22 : Eph 6:5
  5. Ephesians 5:23 : S Eph 1:22
  6. Ephesians 5:24 : S ver 22
  7. Ephesians 5:25 : ver 28, 33; Col 3:19
  8. Ephesians 5:25 : S ver 2
  9. Ephesians 5:26 : Jn 17:19; Heb 2:11; 10:10, 14; 13:12
  10. Ephesians 5:26 : S Ac 22:16
  11. Ephesians 5:27 : S 2Co 4:14
  12. Ephesians 5:27 : Eph 1:4
  13. Ephesians 5:28 : ver 25
  14. Ephesians 5:30 : S Ro 12:5; S 1Co 12:27
  15. Ephesians 5:31 : Ge 2:24; Mt 19:5; 1Co 6:16
  16. Ephesians 5:33 : ver 25
  17. Ephesians 6:1 : Pr 6:20; Col 3:20
  18. Ephesians 6:3 : Ex 20:12; Dt 5:16
  19. Ephesians 6:4 : Col 3:21
  20. Ephesians 6:4 : Ge 18:19; Dt 6:7; Pr 13:24; 22:6
  21. Ephesians 6:5 : 1Ti 6:1; Tit 2:9; 1Pe 2:18
  22. Ephesians 6:5 : Col 3:22
  23. Ephesians 6:5 : Eph 5:22
  24. Ephesians 6:6 : S Ro 6:22
  25. Ephesians 6:7 : Col 3:23
  26. Ephesians 6:8 : S Mt 16:27; Col 3:24
  27. Ephesians 6:9 : Job 31:13, 14
  28. Ephesians 6:9 : S Ac 10:34
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