Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
5 Lord, your faithful love reaches to heaven,
your faithfulness to the clouds.(A)
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your judgments like the deepest sea.(B)
Lord, you preserve people and animals.(C)
7 How priceless your faithful love is, God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.(D)
8 They are filled from the abundance of your house.
You let them drink from your refreshing stream.(E)
9 For the wellspring of life is with you.(F)
By means of your light we see light.(G)
10 Spread your faithful love over those who know you,
and your righteousness over the upright in heart.(H)
True Repentance
19 I thought, “How I long to make you my sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance(A) of all the nations.”
I thought, “You will call me ‘My Father’
and never turn away from me.”
20 However, as a woman may betray her lover,[a]
so you have betrayed(B) me, house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
21 A sound is heard on the barren heights:
the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,
for they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.(C)
22 Return, you faithless children.
I will heal your unfaithfulness.(D)
“Here we are, coming to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
23 Surely, falsehood comes from the hills,
commotion from the mountains,(E)
but the salvation of Israel
is only in the Lord our God.(F)
24 From the time of our youth
the shameful one[b] has consumed
what our ancestors have worked for—
their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters.
25 Let us lie down in our shame;
let our disgrace cover us.(G)
We have sinned against the Lord our God,(H)
both we and our ancestors,
from the time of our youth even to this day.(I)
We have not obeyed the Lord our God.”
Principles of Marriage
7 Now in response to the matters you wrote[a] about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”[b] 2 But because sexual immorality is so common,[c](A) each man should have sexual relations with his own wife,(B) and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband. 3 A husband should fulfill his marital duty(C) to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband. 4 A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does. 5 Do not deprive(D) one another—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to[d] prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 I wish that all people were as I am. But each has his own gift(E) from God, one person has this gift, another has that.
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