Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Israel’s Rebelliousness and the Lord’s Help.
106 [a]Praise [b]the Lord!
Oh (A)give thanks to the Lord, for He (B)is good;
For (C)His mercy is everlasting.
2 Who can speak of the (D)mighty deeds of the Lord,
Or can proclaim all His praise?
3 How blessed are those who maintain [c]justice,
[d]Who (E)practice righteousness at all times!
13 They quickly (A)forgot His works;
They (B)did not wait for His plan,
14 But (C)became lustfully greedy in the wilderness,
And (D)put God to the test in the desert.
15 So He (E)gave them their request,
But (F)sent a [a]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 [b]company of Abiram.
18 And a (I)fire blazed up in their [c]company;
The flame consumed the wicked.
19 They (J)made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped a cast metal image.
20 So 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 [d](N)Wonders in the land of Ham,
And awesome things by the [e]Red Sea.
23 Therefore (O)He said that He would destroy them,
If (P)Moses, His chosen one, had not stood in the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
15 “So (A)be very careful [a]yourselves, 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 carved image for yourselves in the form of any figure, a representation of male or female, 17 a representation of any animal that is on the earth, a representation of (E)any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18 a representation of anything that crawls on the ground, or a representation of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 19 And be careful not to raise your eyes to heaven and look at the sun, the moon, and the stars, (F)all the heavenly [b]lights, (G)and allow yourself to be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things 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 of His own possession, as today.
19 For this finds favor, if for the sake of (A)conscience toward God a person endures [a]grief 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 favor with God.
Christ Is Our Example
21 For (C)you have been called for this purpose, (D)because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you (E)an example, so that you would follow in His steps, 22 He who (F)committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 23 [b]and while being (G)abusively insulted, He did not insult in return; while suffering, He did not threaten, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 and He Himself [c](H)brought our sins in His body up on the [d](I)cross, so that we (J)might die to [e]sin and live for righteousness; (K)by His [f]wounds you were (L)healed. 25 For you were (M)continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the (N)Shepherd and [g]Guardian of your souls.
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