Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
5 Your (A)mercy, Lord, [a]extends to the heavens,
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
6 Your (B)righteousness is like the [b]mountains of God;
Your (C)judgments are like the great deep.
Lord, You [c](D)protect mankind and animals.
7 How (E)precious is Your mercy, God!
And the sons of mankind (F)take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
8 They (G)drink their fill of the [d]abundance of Your house;
And You allow them to drink from the (H)river of Your delights.
9 For the (I)fountain of life is with You;
In Your light we see light.
19 “Then I said,
‘How I would set you among [a]My sons
And give you a pleasant land,
The most (A)beautiful inheritance of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, (B)My Father,
And not turn away from following Me.’
20 However, as a woman treacherously leaves her lover,
So you have (C)dealt treacherously with Me,
House of Israel,” declares the Lord.
21 A voice is heard on the (D)bare heights,
The weeping, the pleading of the sons of Israel.
Because they have perverted their way,
They have (E)forgotten the Lord their God.
22 “Return, you faithless sons,
(F)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to You;
For You are the Lord our God.
23 Certainly (G)the hills are a deception,
[b]Commotion on the mountains.
Certainly in the (H)Lord our God
Is the salvation of Israel.
24 “But (I)the shame has consumed the product of our fathers’ labor since our youth—their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us lie down in our (J)shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, (K)from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
Teaching on Marriage
7 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is (A)good for a man [a]not to touch a woman. 2 But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3 The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 [b](B)Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and [c]come together again so that (C)Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But this I say by way of concession, (D)not of command. 7 [d]Yet I wish that all [e]men were (E)even as I myself am. However, (F)each has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another in that.
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