Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 116[a]
Thanksgiving to God Who Saves from Death
I
1 I love the Lord, who listened
to my voice in supplication,
2 Who turned an ear to me
on the day I called.
12 How can I repay the Lord
for all the great good done for me?
13 I will raise the cup of salvation[a]
and call on the name of the Lord.
14 I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.
15 [b]Dear in the eyes of the Lord
is the death of his devoted.(A)
16 Lord, I am your servant,
your servant, the child of your maidservant;(B)
you have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer a sacrifice of praise
and call on the name of the Lord.(C)
18 I will pay my vows to the Lord(D)
in the presence of all his people,
19 In the courts of the house of the Lord,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Hallelujah!
Chapter 21
Birth of Isaac.[a] 1 The Lord took note of Sarah as he had said he would; the Lord did for her as he had promised.(A) 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time that God had stated.(B) 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to this son of his whom Sarah bore him.(C) 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded.(D) 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 Sarah then said, “God has given me cause to laugh,[b] and all who hear of it will laugh with me.(E) 7 Who would ever have told Abraham,” she added, “that Sarah would nurse children! Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
III. Jesus, Faithful and Compassionate High Priest
Chapter 3
Jesus, Superior to Moses.[a] 1 Therefore, holy “brothers,” sharing in a heavenly calling, reflect on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was “faithful in [all] his house.”(A) 3 But he is worthy of more “glory” than Moses, as the founder of a house has more “honor” than the house itself.(B) 4 Every house is founded by someone, but the founder of all is God. 5 Moses was “faithful in all his house” as a “servant” to testify to what would be spoken, 6 [b](C)but Christ was faithful as a son placed over his house. We are his house, if [only] we hold fast to our confidence and pride in our hope.
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