Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
14 The Lord, my strength and might,
has become my savior.(A)
IV
15 The joyful shout of deliverance
is heard in the tents of the righteous:
“The Lord’s right hand works valiantly;
16 the Lord’s right hand is raised;
the Lord’s right hand works valiantly.”
17 I shall not die but live
and declare the deeds of the Lord.
18 The Lord chastised me harshly,
but did not hand me over to death.
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19 Open the gates of righteousness;
I will enter and thank the Lord.(B)
20 This is the Lord’s own gate,
through it the righteous enter.
21 I thank you for you answered me;
you have been my savior.
22 [a]The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.(C)
23 By the Lord has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
24 This is the day the Lord has made;
let us rejoice in it and be glad.
20 (A)Then God said: Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky. 21 God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of crawling living creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw that it was good, 22 and God blessed them, saying: Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth.(B) 23 Evening came, and morning followed—the fifth day.
24 (C)Then God said: Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: tame animals, crawling things, and every kind of wild animal. And so it happened: 25 God made every kind of wild animal, every kind of tame animal, and every kind of thing that crawls on the ground. God saw that it was good. 26 (D)Then God said: Let us make[a] human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth.
27 God created mankind in his image;
in the image of God he created them;
male and female[b] he created them.
28 God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.[c] Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth.(E) 29 [d](F)God also said: See, I give you every seed-bearing plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; 30 and to all the wild animals, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the earth, I give all the green plants for food. And so it happened. 31 God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed—the sixth day.(G)
Chapter 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth and all their array were completed.(H) 2 [e]On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing; he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken.(I) 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation.(J)
I. The Story of the Nations
The Garden of Eden. 4 This is the story[f] of the heavens and the earth at their creation. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens—
The Resurrection Event. 50 [a]This I declare, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption[b] inherit incorruption.(A) 51 [c]Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,(B) 52 in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.(C) 53 For that which is corruptible must clothe itself with incorruptibility, and that which is mortal must clothe itself with immortality.(D) 54 [d]And when this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality, then the word that is written shall come about:(E)
“Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”(F)
56 The sting of death is sin,[e] and the power of sin is the law.(G) 57 But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.(H)
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
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