Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Mem
97 How I (A)love Your Law!
It is my (B)meditation all the day.
98 Your (C)commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
For they are ever [a]mine.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my (D)meditation.
100 I understand (E)more than those who are old,
Because I have (F)complied with Your precepts.
101 I have (G)restrained my feet from every evil way,
So that I may keep Your word.
102 I have not (H)turned aside from Your judgments,
For You Yourself have taught me.
103 How (I)sweet are Your [b]words to my [c]taste!
Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 From Your precepts I (J)get understanding;
Therefore I (K)hate every false way.
The People Confess Their Sin
9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of (A)this month the sons of Israel assembled (B)with fasting, in sackcloth and with (C)dirt upon them. 2 The [a](D)descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and they stood and (E)confessed their sins and the wrongdoings of their fathers. 3 While (F)they stood in their place, they read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God. 4 (G)Now on the Levites’ platform stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and they cried out with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, “Arise, bless the Lord your God forever and ever!
May Your glorious name be blessed
And exalted above all blessing and praise!
6 (H)You alone are the Lord.
(I)You have made the heavens,
The heaven of heavens with all their [b]lights,
The earth and everything that is on it,
The seas and everything that is in them.
(J)You give life to all of them,
And the heavenly [c]lights bow down before You.
7 You are the Lord God,
(K)Who chose Abram
And brought him out from (L)Ur of the Chaldees,
And (M)gave him the name Abraham.
8 You found (N)his heart faithful before You,
And made a covenant with him
To give him the land of the Canaanite,
Of the Hittite and the Amorite,
Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite—
To give it to his [d]descendants.
And You (O)have fulfilled Your [e]promise,
Because You are righteous.
9 “(P)You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
And (Q)heard their cry by the [f]Red Sea.
10 Then You performed (R)signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
Against all his servants and all the people of his land;
For You knew that (S)they acted arrogantly toward them,
And You (T)made a name for Yourself as it is this day.
11 (U)You divided the sea before them,
So they passed through the midst of the sea on dry ground;
And You hurled (V)their pursuers into the depths,
Like a stone into [g]raging waters.
12 And with a pillar of cloud (W)You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light for them the way
In which they were to go.
13 Then (X)You came down on Mount Sinai,
And (Y)spoke with them from heaven;
You gave them (Z)just ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.
14 So You made known to them (AA)Your holy Sabbath,
And gave them commandments, statutes, and law,
Through Your servant Moses.
15 You (AB)provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger,
You (AC)brought out water from a rock for them for their thirst,
And You (AD)told them to enter in order to take possession of
The land which You [h]swore to give them.
21 [a](A)and subject yourselves to one another in the [b](B)fear of Christ.
Marriage like Christ and the Church
22 (C)Wives, (D)subject yourselves to your own husbands, (E)as to the Lord. 23 For (F)the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the (G)head of the church, He Himself (H)being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
25 (I)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and (J)gave Himself up for her, 26 (K)so that He might sanctify her, having (L)cleansed her by the (M)washing of water with (N)the word, 27 that He might (O)present to Himself the church [c]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be (P)holy and blameless. 28 So husbands also ought to (Q)love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are (R)parts of His (S)body. 31 (T)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to (U)love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she (V)respects her husband.
Children and Parents
6 (W)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 (X)Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3 so that it may turn out well for you, and that you may live long on the earth.
4 (Y)Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but (Z)bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Slaves and Masters
5 (AA)Slaves, be obedient to those who are your [d]masters according to the flesh, with (AB)fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, (AC)as to Christ; 6 (AD)not [e]by way of [f]eye-service, as (AE)people-pleasers, but as (AF)slaves of Christ, (AG)doing the will of God from the [g]heart. 7 With goodwill [h]render service, (AH)as to the Lord, and not to people, 8 (AI)knowing that (AJ)whatever good thing each one does, he will receive this back from the Lord, (AK)whether slave or free.
9 And masters, do the same things to them, and (AL)give up threatening, knowing that (AM)both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is (AN)no partiality with Him.
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