Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Yahweh Will Raise Up a Prophet

¹⁵ “^(A)Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers; you shall listen to him. ¹⁶ This is ^(B)according to all that you asked of Yahweh your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God; let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’ ^17 (C)And Yahweh said to me, ‘They have ^[a]spoken well. ¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers like you, and ^(D)I will put My words in his mouth, and ^(E)he shall speak to them all that I command him. ^19 (F)And it will be that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet who speaks a word ^(G)presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^(H)which he speaks in the name of other gods, ^[b]that prophet shall die.’

Yahweh Is Gracious and Compassionate

Aleph

Beth

Gimel

Daleth

He

Vav

Zayin

Heth

Teth

Yodh

Kaph

Lamedh

Mem

Nun

Samekh

Ayin

Pe

Tsadhe

Qoph

Resh

Take Care with Your Liberty

8 Now concerning ^(A)things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have ^(B)knowledge. Knowledge ^(C)puffs up, but love ^(D)builds up. ^2 (E)If anyone thinks that he has known anything, he has not yet ^(F)known as he ought to know; ³ but if anyone loves God, he ^(G)has been known by Him.

⁴ Therefore, concerning the eating of ^(H)things sacrificed to idols, we know that ^[a]an idol is ^(I)nothing in the world, and that ^(J)there is no God but one. ⁵ For even if ^(K)there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, ⁶ yet for us ^(L)there is one God, ^(M)the Father, ^(N)from whom are all things and we exist for Him, and ^(O)one Lord, Jesus Christ, ^(P)by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

⁷ However, not all men ^(Q)have this knowledge; but ^(R)some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. ⁸ But ^(S)food will not ^[b]commend us to God. We neither lack if we do not eat, nor abound if we do eat. ⁹ But ^(T)see to it that this ^[c]authority of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the ^(U)weak. ¹⁰ For if someone sees you, who have ^(V)knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be built up to eat ^(W)things sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ For through ^(X)your knowledge he who is weak ^(Y)is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. ^12 (Z)And in that way, by sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin ^(AA)against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(AB)if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again—ever, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

^21 (A)And they *went into Capernaum; and immediately on the Sabbath ^(B)He entered the synagogue and began to teach. ^22 (C)And they were astonished at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. ²³ And immediately there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, ²⁴ saying, “^(D)What ^[a]do we have to do with You, Jesus the ^(E)Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—^(F)the Holy One of God!” ²⁵ And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!” ²⁶ And throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him. ²⁷ And they were all ^(G)amazed, so that they were arguing among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him.” ²⁸ And immediately the news about Him spread everywhere into all the surrounding district of Galilee.