Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving

Psalm 100

¹⁷ As for you, My flock”—thus says Adonai Elohim—“behold, I will judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats. ^{[a] 18} Was it too little for you that you were feeding in the good pasture? Must you trample down the rest of your pastures with your feet? You were drinking clear water. Must you muddy the rest with your feet? ¹⁹ Yet My sheep must eat what you have trampled with your feet and drink what you have muddied with your feet!”

²⁰ Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim to them: “Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹ Because you thrust with your side and with shoulder and gore all the weak with your horns, until you have scattered them all over, ²² I will save My flock. They will no longer be prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep. ²³ So I will set up One Shepherd over them, My servant David—He will tend them, He will feed them Himself and be their shepherd.

Shepherds Lead by Example

5 Therefore I appeal to the elders among you—as a fellow elder and witness of Messiah’s sufferings, and a partaker also of the glory about to be revealed— ² shepherd God’s flock among you. Watch over it not under compulsion but willingly before God, not for dishonest gain but eagerly. ³ Don’t lord it over^[a] those apportioned to you, but become examples to the flock. ⁴ When the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. ⁵ Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for