Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Mem
97 Oh how (A)I love your law!
It is my (B)meditation all the day.
98 Your commandment makes me (C)wiser than my enemies,
for it is ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for (D)your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than (E)the aged,[a]
for I (F)keep your precepts.
101 I (G)hold back my feet from every evil way,
in order to keep your word.
102 I do not turn aside from your rules,
for you have taught me.
103 How (H)sweet are your words to my taste,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through your precepts I get understanding;
therefore (I)I hate every false way.
10 (A)“Now I will arise,” says the Lord,
“now I will lift myself up;
now I will be exalted.
11 (B)You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;
your breath is (C)a fire that will consume you.
12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
(D)like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling has seized the godless:
(E)“Who among us can dwell (F)with the consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15 (G)He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
(H)and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
16 he will dwell on the heights;
his place of defence will be the fortresses of rocks;
(I)his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.
16 You did not choose me, but (A)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and (B)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that (C)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, (D)so that you will love one another.
The Hatred of the World
18 (E)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 (F)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because (G)you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: (H)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, (I)they will also persecute you. (J)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But (K)all these things they will do to you (L)on account of my name, (M)because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, (N)they would not have been guilty of sin,[a] but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 (O)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 (P)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, (Q)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have (R)seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But (S)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: (T)‘They hated me without a cause.’
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