Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
4 Hear the Word of the LORD, O House of Jacob, and all the families of the House of Israel.
5 Thus says the LORD: “What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?
6 “For they did not say, ‘Where is the LORD Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a desert and waste land, through a dry land, and by the shadow of death, by a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?’
7 “And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit, and the commodities of the same. But when you entered, you defiled My land, and made My heritage an abomination.
8 “The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ And those who should minister the Law did not know Me. The pastors also sinned against Me, and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and went after things that did not profit.
9 “Therefore, I will still plead with you,” says the LORD, “and I will plead with your children’s children.
10 “For go to the isles of Chittim and behold, and send to Kedar and take diligent heed, and see whether there are such things.
11 “Has any nation changed their gods, which yet are not gods? But My people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
12 “O, you heavens, be astonished at this! Be afraid and utterly confounded,” says the LORD.
13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the Fountain of Living Waters, to dig themselves pits, broken pits that can hold no water.
81 Sing joyfully to God our strength! Sing loud to the God of Jacob!
10 “(for I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt). Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!
11 “But My people would not hear My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.
12 “So, I gave them up to the hardness of their heart, and they have walked in their own counsels.
13 “Oh that My people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in My ways!
14 “I would soon have humbled their enemies and turned My hand against their adversaries.
15 “The haters of the LORD will feign subjection to Him, but their time would endure forever.
16 “And I would have fed them with the fat of wheat, and with honey out of the rock would I have sufficed you.” A Psalm committed to Asaph
13 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Do not forget to entertain strangers. For thereby some have unknowingly received angels into their houses.
3 Remember the prisoners, as though you were bound with them; and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge whoremongers and adulterers.
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness. And be content with those things that you have. For He has said,
6 “I will neither fail you nor forsake you.”
7 So that we may boldly say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do to me.”
8 Remember your leaders who have declared to you the Word of God. Follow their faith, considering what has been the outcome of their conduct. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
15 Therefore, by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God (that is, the fruit of the lips which confess His Name).
16 Do not forget to do good and to share. For God is pleased with such sacrifices.
14 And it happened that when He had entered into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they watched Him.
7 He also spoke a parable to the guests when He noted how they selected the chief seats at the table, and said to them,
8 “When you shall be invited by anyone to a wedding, do not sit yourself down in the place of honor, lest a more honorable than you be invited.
9 “And the one who invited both you and him comes and says to you, ‘Give this man that place.’ And then you begin (with shame) to take the lowest place.
10 “But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place. So that when the one who invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, sit up higher.’ Then you shall have honor in the presence of those who sit at table with you.
11 “For whoever exalts himself, shall be brought low. And the one who humbles himself, shall be exalted.”
12 Then He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or the rich neighbors, so that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made to you.
13 “But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.
14 “And you shall be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you shall be recompensed at the Resurrection of the Just.”
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