Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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¹⁴ ‘Look, days are coming,’ declares^[a] Yahweh, ‘and I will fulfill the good promise^[b] that I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. ¹⁵ In those days and in that time I will make a branch of righteousness sprout for David, and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land. ¹⁶ In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely,^[c] and this is what they shall call it: “Yahweh is our righteousness.”’ ¹⁷ For thus says Yahweh: ‘A man who sits on the throne of the house of Israel will not be cut off for David. ¹⁸ And for the priests, a man from the Levites who offers burnt offerings^[d] and who burns grain offerings^[e] and who brings sacrifices^[f] will not be cut off before me^[g] forever.’”^[h]

¹⁹ And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,^{[i] 20} “Thus says Yahweh: ‘If you could break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their time, ²¹ then my covenant could be broken with David my servant, from having^[j] a son who could rule on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers. ²² As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will make numerous the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’” ²³ And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,^{[k] 24} “Have you not seen how these people speak, saying,^[l] ‘The two clans^[m] whom Yahweh chose, he has also rejected them’? Thus they spurn my people from being a nation before them^[n] any longer. ²⁵ Thus says Yahweh: ‘If my covenant with day and with night, the regulations of heaven and earth, I had not established, ²⁶ then the offspring of Jacob and David my servant I would reject, from choosing rulers from his offspring over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will restore their fortunes^[o] and I will have compassion on them.’”

Greeting

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints who are in all Achaia. ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving for God’s Compassion and Comfort

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in all affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵ For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, thus through Christ our comfort overflows also. ⁶ But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. ⁷ And our hope for you is firm, because we^[a] know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort.

⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia,^[b] that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living. ⁹ But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a risk of death, and will deliver us, in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver us again, ¹¹ while^[c] you also join in helping on our behalf^[d] by prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf^[e] by many persons for this gracious gift given to us through the help of many.