Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Fill Up My Joy By Being United In Love And Humility
2 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of [a] love, if any fellowship[b] of the Spirit, if any deep-feelings and compassions, 2 fill-up my joy, which is that you be thinking the same thing[c], having the same love, united-in-spirit, thinking[d] the one thing, 3 doing nothing based-on selfish-interest nor based on conceit, but with humble-mindedness regarding one another as surpassing[e] yourselves; 4 not each looking-out-for your own things, but also each the things of others.
Think And Behave Like Christ Did
5 Be thinking[f] this in you, which also was in Christ Jesus— 6 Who, while[g] being[h] in the form[i] of God, did not regard the being equal with God a thing-to-be-grasped[j], 7 but emptied Himself, having taken the form of a slave, having come[k] in the likeness[l] of humans[m]. And having been found as a man in outward-appearance, 8 He humbled Himself, having become obedient to the point of death— and a death of a cross! 9 Therefore God also highly-exalted Him, and granted Him the name above every name 10 in-order-that every knee should bow at the name of Jesus— of heavenly ones and earthly ones and ones under-the-earth— 11 and every tongue should confess-out[n] that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Work Out Your Salvation As Shining Lights In The World, Holding Out The Word of Life
12 So then my beloved, just as you always obeyed— not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence— be working-out your salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For God[o] is the One working in you both the wanting[p] and the working, for His good-pleasure.
The Priests Ask, By What Authority Do You Do This?
23 And He having come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came-to Him while He was teaching, saying, “By what-kind-of [a] authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?” 24 And having responded, Jesus said to them, “I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I also will tell you by what-kind-of authority I am doing these things— 25 From where was the baptism of John, from heaven or from humans?” And the ones were discussing among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven’, He will say to us, ‘Then for what reason did you not believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From humans’, we fear the crowd. For they all are holding John as a prophet”. 27 And having responded to Jesus, they said, “We do not know”. He also said to them, “Nor am I telling you by what-kind-of authority I am doing these things.
One Son Feigns Obedience, One Disobeys But Repents. Which Did The Father’s Will?
28 “But what seems right to you?— A man had two children. And having gone to the first he said, ‘Child, go, work today in the vineyard’. 29 And the one, having responded, said, ‘I will not’. But having regretted[b] it later, he went. 30 And having gone to the other, he spoke similarly. And the one, having responded, said, ‘I will, sir’, and he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of the father?” They say, “The first”.
You Priests Feign Obedience To God, But Did Not Believe John, God’s Messenger
Jesus says to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax-collectors and the prostitutes are going-ahead-of you into the kingdom of God. 32 For John came to you in[c] the way of righteousness and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And you, having seen it, did not-even regret it later, that you might believe him.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing