Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Israel’s Rebelliousness and the Lord’s Deliverances.
106 [a]Praise [b]the Lord!
Oh (A)give thanks to the Lord, for He (B)is good;
For (C)His lovingkindness is everlasting.
2 Who can speak of the (D)mighty deeds of the Lord,
Or can show forth all His praise?
3 How blessed are those who keep [c]justice,
[d]Who (E)practice righteousness at all times!
13 They quickly (A)forgot His works;
They (B)did not wait for His counsel,
14 But (C)craved intensely in the wilderness,
And [a](D)tempted God in the desert.
15 So He (E)gave them their request,
But (F)sent a [b]wasting disease among them.
16 When they became (G)envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,
17 The (H)earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And engulfed the [c]company of Abiram.
18 And a (I)fire blazed up in their [d]company;
The flame consumed the wicked.
19 They (J)made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.
20 Thus they (K)exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They (L)forgot God their Savior,
Who had done (M)great things in Egypt,
22 [e](N)Wonders in the land of Ham
And awesome things by the [f]Red Sea.
23 Therefore (O)He said that He would destroy them,
Had not (P)Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
15 “So (A)watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any (B)form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, 16 so that you do not (C)act corruptly and (D)make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of (E)any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 19 And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, (F)all the host of heaven, (G)and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20 But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of (H)the iron furnace, from Egypt, to (I)be a people for His own possession, as today.
19 For this finds [a]favor, if for the sake of (A)conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if (B)when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds [b]favor with God.
Christ Is Our Example
21 For (C)you have been called for this purpose, (D)since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you (E)an example for you to follow in His steps, 22 who (F)committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 23 [c]and while being (G)reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 and He Himself [d](H)bore our sins in His body on the [e](I)cross, so that we (J)might die to [f]sin and live to righteousness; for (K)by His [g]wounds you were (L)healed. 25 For you were (M)continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the (N)Shepherd and [h]Guardian of your souls.
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