Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
20 The Lord rewarded me
according to my righteousness;(A)
he repaid me
according to the cleanness of my hands.(B)
21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord
and have not turned from my God to wickedness.(C)
22 Indeed, I let all his ordinances guide me[a]
and have not disregarded his statutes.(D)
23 I was blameless toward him(E)
and kept myself from my iniquity.
24 So the Lord repaid me
according to my righteousness,(F)
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.(G)
25 With the faithful
you prove yourself faithful,
with the blameless
you prove yourself blameless,
26 with the pure
you prove yourself pure,
but with the crooked
you prove yourself shrewd.(H)
27 For you rescue an oppressed people,(I)
but you humble those with haughty eyes.(J)
28 Lord, you light my lamp;
my God illuminates my darkness.(K)
29 With you I can attack a barricade,[b]
and with my God I can leap over a wall.(L)
15 When she got up to gather grain, Boaz ordered his young men, “Let her even gather grain among the bundles, and don’t humiliate her. 16 Pull out some stalks from the bundles for her and leave them for her to gather. Don’t rebuke her.” 17 So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. She beat out what she had gathered, and it was about twenty-six quarts[a] of barley. 18 She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She brought out what she had left over from her meal and gave it to her.
19 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you gather barley today, and where did you work? May the Lord bless the man who noticed you.”(A)
Ruth told her mother-in-law whom she had worked with and said, “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz.”
20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May the Lord(B) bless him because he has not abandoned his kindness to the living or the dead.”(C) Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our family redeemers.”(D)
21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished all of my harvest.’”
22 So Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work[b] with his female servants, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.” 23 Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished.(E) And she lived with[c] her mother-in-law.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil.(A) Give careful thought to do what is honorable(B) in everyone’s eyes. 18 If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.(C) 19 Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for God’s wrath, because it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay,[a](D) says the Lord. 20 But
If your enemy is hungry, feed him.(E)
If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
For in so doing
you will be heaping fiery coals on his head.[b](F)
21 Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.
Love, Our Primary Duty
8 Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.(A) 9 The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal;[a] do not covet;[b](B) and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.[c](C) 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.
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