Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
28 To You, O LORD, do I cry. O my strength, do not be deaf toward me; lest if You do not answer me, I be like those who go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions when I cry to You, when I hold up my hands toward Your Holy Oracle.
3 Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak friendly to their neighbors when malice is in their hearts.
4 Reward them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Recompense them for the work of their hands. Render them their reward.
5 For they do not reward the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands. Break them down and do not build them up.
6 Praised be the LORD, for He has heard the voice of my petitions.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted in Him, and I was helped. Therefore, my heart shall rejoice; and with my song I will praise Him.
8 The LORD is their strength; and He is the strength of the deliverances of His anointed.
9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Feed them, also, and exalt them forever. A Psalm of David.
18 The Word of the LORD came to me again, saying:
2 “What do you mean when you speak this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?’
3 “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel.
4 “Behold, all souls are Mine. Both the soul of the father, and also the soul of the son, are Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.
5 “But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
6 “has not eaten upon the mountains or lifted up his eyes to the idols of the House of Israel or defiled his neighbor’s wife or approached a menstruous woman,
7 “or oppressed anyone; if he has restored the pledge to his debtor, has robbed no one by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
8 “has not lent with usury or taken any increase, has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and has executed true judgment between man and man,
9 “and has walked in My Statutes, and has kept My Judgments, to deal truly, he is just. He shall surely live,” says the Lord GOD.
10 “If he begets a son who is a thief or a shedder of blood, if he does any of these things
11 “(even if he does not do all these things, but still has): eaten upon the mountains or defiled his neighbor’s wife,
12 “has oppressed the poor and needy or has robbed by violence or has not restored the pledge or has lifted up his eyes to idols or has committed abomination,
13 “has lent with usury or taken increase, shall he live? He shall not live, seeing he has done all these abominations. He shall die the death. His blood shall be upon himself.
14 “But if he begets a son who sees all his father’s sins which he has done, and fears but doesn’t do the same,
15 “so that he has not eaten upon the mountains or lifted up his eyes to the idols of the House of Israel or defiled his neighbor’s wife
16 “or oppressed anyone or withheld the pledge or robbed by violence; but has given his bread to the hungry, has covered the naked with a garment,
17 “has not withdrawn his hand from the afflicted or received usury or increase but has executed My Judgments and walked in My Statutes, he shall not die in the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.
18 “His father, because he cruelly oppressed and robbed his brother by violence, and has not done good among his people, lo, he dies in his iniquity.
19 “Yet you say, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ —because the son has executed judgment and justice and has kept all My Statutes and done them. He shall surely live.
20 “The same soul that sins shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
21 “But if the wicked will turn away from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all My Statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live and shall not die.
22 “All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned to him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
23 “Have I any desire that the wicked should die,” says the Lord GOD, “and not that he should live, if he returns from his ways?
24 “But if the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, doing according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned. In his transgression that he has committed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the LORD is not equal.’ Hear now, O House of Israel! Is it not My way which is equal, and your ways unequal?
26 “When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die for the same. He shall die for his iniquity that he has done.
27 “Again, when the wicked turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
28 “Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live and shall not die.
29 “Still, the House of Israel says, ‘The way of the LORD is not equal.’ O House of Israel! Is it not My way which is equal, and your ways unequal?
30 “Therefore, I will judge you, O House of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord GOD. “Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your destruction.
31 “Cast away from you all your transgressions by which you have transgressed and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, O House of Israel?
32 “For I do not desire the death of him who dies,” says the Lord GOD. “Repent, therefore, and live!”
32 And it so happened that as Peter walked throughout all quarters, he also came to the saints who dwelt in Lydda.
33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been sick of the palsy and lying on a mat for eight years.
34 Then Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you whole. Arise, and make your bed.” And he arose immediately.
35 And all who dwelt in Lydda and Sharon, saw him, and turned to the Lord.
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