Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 114[a]
114 When Israel left Egypt,
when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,[b]
2 Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his kingdom.
3 The sea looked and fled;[c]
the Jordan River[d] turned back.[e]
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.[f]
5 Why do you flee, O sea?
Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?
6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains,
like lambs, O hills?
7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord—
before the God of Jacob,
8 who turned a rock into a pool of water,
a hard rock into springs of water.[g]
36 Gideon said to God, “If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel,[a] as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.[b] 37 Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it[c] is dry, then I will be sure[d] that you will use me to deliver Israel,[e] as you promised.” 38 The Lord did as he asked.[f] When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl.[g] 39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign.[h] Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.”[i] 40 That night God did as he asked.[j] Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.
No Resurrection?
12 Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead,[a] how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty. 15 Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins. 18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep[b] in Christ have also perished. 19 For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
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