Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
6 My brothers, perhaps a man has done something wrong. If so, you who are strong in the Spirit must help him to do the right thing again. Help him in a gentle way. Take care yourself, that you are not tried and will want to do wrong.
2 Help each other in your troubles. In that way you obey Christ's law.
3 A man who thinks that he is an important person when he is not, that man fools himself.
4 Let every man test his own work. Then he will be proud of his own work. He will not be proud because he thinks his own work is better than someone else's work.
5 Each man must carry his own load.
6 People are taught the word of God. They should give some of all the good things they have to those who teach them.
7 Do not be fooled about this. God cannot be fooled. A man gets what he plants.
8 The man who plants the wrong things he wants to do will get death, because of those wrong things. But the person who plants what the Spirit wants him to do will live for ever, because of the Spirit.
9 We must not get tired of doing good things. If we do not stop doing them, we will get something back when the right time comes.
10 So then, when we can, we should do good to all people. But most of all, we should do it to those who are in God's family.
11 (See, I am writing this to you in big letters with my own hand.)
12 Some people want to do things that can be seen. They try to force you to be circumcised. They want to hide from trouble which would come to them if they talk about the cross of Christ.
13 Even those who are circumcised do not obey the law. But they want you to be circumcised. Then they can be proud that they made you do it.
14 But I will not be proud of anything but of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of it, the things of the world have become dead to me, and I have become dead to the world.
15 It does not matter if a person is circumcised or not, but he must become a new person.
16 May all who live by this rule have peace. And may God bless them. They are the true people of Israel and they belong to God.
10 After this the Lord chose seventy other men. He sent them ahead of him, two by two. He sent them to every town and village that he was going to visit.
2 He said to them, `The harvest is much, but there are not many people to gather it. So talk to the Lord of this harvest and ask him to send out people to his harvest.
3 Go on your way now. I am sending you out among people. You will be like sheep among bad animals.
4 Do not take money, or a bag, or shoes. And do not stop to talk with anyone on the road.
5 When you go into a house, first say, "May God give peace to this family."
6 If a man of peace is there, your blessing will stay with him. If not, your blessing will come back to you.
7 Stay in that house. Eat and drink what the people give you. The one who works should have his pay for it. Do not move from one house to another house.
8 `When you go into a town and they take you in, eat what is put before you.
9 Heal the sick people in the town. Tell the people, "The kingdom of God has come to you."
10 But when you go into a town and they do not take you in, then go out into the streets of the town.
11 Say to the people, "We wipe off even the dust of the town that is on our feet. This will be a sign to you. But remember this, the kingdom of God has come."
16 `Anyone who listens to you listens to me. Anyone who does not believe you does not believe me. Anyone who does not believe me does not believe the one who sent me.'
17 The seventy men Jesus had sent out came back very happy. They said, `Lord, even the bad spirits obey us when we talk to them in your name!'
18 Jesus said to them, `I saw Satan fall from the sky like lightning.
19 I have given you power over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will hurt you.
20 Do not be glad that the bad spirits obey you. But be glad that your names are written in the book in heaven.'
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