Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Mary Rejoices Over God Her Savior

⁴⁶ And Mary said, “My soul magnifies^[a] the Lord, ⁴⁷ and my spirit rejoiced-greatly over God my Savior. ⁴⁸ Because He looked-upon^[b] the lowliness^[c] of His slave, for behold— from now on, all generations will consider me blessed^[d], ⁴⁹ because the Powerful One did great things for me. And His name is holy. ⁵⁰ And His mercy to generations and generations is on the ones fearing Him. ⁵¹ He did a mighty-deed^[e] with His arm. He scattered ones proud^[f] in the thought^[g] of their heart. ⁵² He brought-down rulers from their thrones, and lifted-up lowly ones. ⁵³ He filled ones being hungry with good things, and sent ones being rich away empty. ⁵⁴ He helped Israel His servant so that He might remember^[h] mercy, ⁵⁵ just as He spoke to our fathers— to Abraham, and to his seed forever”.

So Remember Your Hopeless Condition As Gentiles Without Christ And God’s Promises

¹¹ Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh— the ones being called “the uncircumcised” by the one being called “the circumcised” (one done-by-human-hands in the flesh)— ¹² that you were at that time without Christ, having been excluded from the citizenship^[a] of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without-God in the world.

But Now Christ Made Peace And Reconciled Jews And Gentiles To God Through The Cross

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones formerly being far-away, were made near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For He Himself is our peace, the One having made both one and having broken-down the dividing-wall of partition^[b], the hostility— in His flesh ¹⁵ having abolished^[c] the Law of commandments in decrees^[d] in order that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility by it^[e]. ¹⁷ And having come, He announced-as-good-news peace to you, the ones far-away, and peace to the ones near, ¹⁸ because^[f] through Him we both have the access in^[g] one Spirit to the Father.

So You Are No Longer Strangers, But In Christ You Are Fellow Citizens And Family Members

¹⁹ So then, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens with the saints and family-members of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of ^[h] the apostles and prophets— Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, ²¹ in Whom the whole building being fitted-together^[i] is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in Whom also you are being built-together into a dwelling-place of God in^[j] the Spirit.