Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

But You Are Still Acting Like Infants By Dividing Over Paul And Apollos

3 And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to ones made-of-flesh^[a], as to infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk to drink, not food, for you were not yet able. But not-even still now are you able, ³ for you are still fleshly^[b]. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking in accordance with human thinking^[c]? ⁴ For whenever one says “I am of Paul”, and another “I am of Apollos”, are you not [mere] humans?

So What Are Apollos And Paul? Servants Planting And Watering Seed For God

⁵ Therefore, what is Apollos? And what is Paul?— servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing-growth. ⁷ So then neither is the one planting anything, nor the one watering, but God causing the growth. ⁸ And the one planting and the one watering are one^[d], but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

We Are Workers In God’s Building. Be Careful How You Build On The Foundation

⁹ For we are God’s fellow-workers^[e]; you are God’s farm, God’s building.

Some Say Do Not Murder. I Say Do Not Get Angry

²¹ “You heard that it was said to^[a] the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder’, and ‘Whoever murders shall be liable^[b] to the judgment’. ²² But I say to you that everyone being angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca’^[c], shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. And whoever says, ‘Fool’^[d], shall be liable to the Gehenna^[e] of ^[f] fire. ²³ Therefore if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your gift there in front of the altar, and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then, having come, be offering your gift. ²⁵ Be settling with your adversary quickly— until^[g] you are with him on the way [to court]— that your adversary might not perhaps hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. ²⁶ Truly I say to you, you will by no means come out from there until you pay the last quadrans^[h].

Some Say Do Not Commit Adultery. I Say Do Not Desire Another Woman

²⁷ “You heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit-adultery’. ²⁸ But I say to you that everyone looking-at a woman so-as to desire^[i] her already committed-adultery-with her in his heart. ²⁹ And if your right eye is causing you to fall, tear it out^[j] and throw it from you. For it is better^[k] for you that one of your body-parts perish and your whole body not be thrown into Gehenna. ³⁰ And if your right hand is causing you to fall, cut it off and throw it from you. For it is better for you that one of your body-parts perish and your whole body not go into Gehenna.

Some Say Get a Legal Divorce. I Say Divorcees Who Remarry Commit Adultery

³¹ “And it was said, ‘Whoever sends-away^[l] his wife, let him give her a divorce^[m] certificate’. ³² But I say to you that everyone sending-away his wife except for a matter^[n] of sexual-immorality is causing her to commit-adultery^[o]. And whoever marries a woman having been sent-away [from her husband] is committing-adultery.

Some Say Do Not Break Your Oath. I Say Do Not Swear an Oath At All

³³ “Again, you heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not break-your-oath^[p], but you shall pay your oaths to the Lord’. ³⁴ But I say to you not to swear-with-an-oath^[q] at all— ³⁵ neither by heaven, because it is the throne of God; nor by earth, because it is a footstool of His feet; nor with reference to Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King; ³⁶ nor may you swear-with-an-oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’, [or] ‘No, no’. And the thing beyond these is from^[r] the evil one.