Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ Your love must be real love. Hate what is wrong. Hold to what is good.

¹⁰ Love one another very much, like brothers. Honour other people more than you honour yourself.

¹¹ Do not hold back in what you do. Let the Spirit burn in you. Work hard for the Lord.

¹² Be very happy because you have a hope. Be strong when you have trouble. Keep on talking with God.

¹³ Give to God's people who need it. Be glad to take care of strangers in your house.

¹⁴ Bless those who do wrong things to you. Bless them. Do not curse them.

¹⁵ Be happy with people who are happy. Cry with people who cry.

¹⁶ Agree with one another. Do not be proud, but be friends with anybody. Do not think you are wiser than you are.

¹⁷ When people do wrong things to you, do not do wrong things to them also. But try to do good things for all people.

¹⁸ As much as you can, live in peace with everyone.

¹⁹ My dear brothers, do not punish people who do wrong to you. But let God's anger punish them. In the holy writings the Lord says, `I myself will punish people. If they have done wrong things, I will do wrong things to them also.'

²⁰ But, `If your enemy is hungry, give him food. If he is thirsty, give him a drink. When you do that, it will be as if you put a pile of coals from the fire on his head.'

²¹ Do not let wrong things win a victory over you. But win a victory over wrong things by the good things you do.

²¹ From that time on, Jesus began to teach his disciples. He said, `I must go to Jerusalem. I will have much trouble from the leaders, the chief priests, and the scribes. I will be killed. On the third day, I will be raised from death.'

²² Peter took him to one side and began to talk to him. He said, `Lord! May God stop it! This must never happen to you.'

²³ But Jesus turned to Peter and said, `Get away from me Satan! You are trying to make me do wrong. You are not thinking the way God thinks, but the way people think.'

²⁴ Then Jesus told his disciples, `If anyone wants to come with me, he must leave what he himself wants to do. He must be willing to carry his cross and come with me.

²⁵ Anyone who wants to keep his life will lose it. And anyone who gives up his life for my sake will find it.

²⁶ What good will it do a man if he gets the whole world for himself, but loses his life? What can a person give to get back his life?

²⁷ The Son of Man will come with his angels and will be great like his Father. Then he will pay every man for what he has done.

²⁸ I tell you the truth. Some people are standing here who will not die before they see the Son of Man come in his kingdom.'