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Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with sequential stories told across multiple weeks.

Duration: 1245 days

Psalm 116:1-4

Thanksgiving for Recovery from Illness

116 I love the Lord, because he has heard
    my voice and my supplications.
²Because he inclined his ear to me,
    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
³The snares of death encompassed me;
    the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
    I suffered distress and anguish.
⁴Then I called on the name of the Lord:
    “O Lord, I beseech thee, save my life!”

Psalm 116:12-19

¹²What shall I render to the Lord
    for all his bounty to me?
¹³I will lift up the cup of salvation
    and call on the name of the Lord,
¹⁴I will pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people.
¹⁵Precious in the sight of the Lord
    is the death of his saints.
¹⁶O Lord, I am thy servant;
    I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid.
    Thou hast loosed my bonds.
¹⁷I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving
    and call on the name of the Lord.
¹⁸I will pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people,
¹⁹in the courts of the house of the Lord,
    in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!

Isaiah 26:1-4

Judah’s Song of Victory

26 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city;
    he sets up salvation
    as walls and bulwarks.
²Open the gates,
    that the righteous nation which keeps faith
    may enter in.
³Thou dost keep him in perfect peace,
    whose mind is stayed on thee,
    because he trusts in thee.
⁴Trust in the Lord for ever,
    for the Lord God
    is an everlasting rock.

1 Peter 1:13-16

A Call to Holy Living

¹³Therefore gird up your minds, be sober, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, ¹⁵but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; ¹⁶since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

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