Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Be Loving, Pure, and Content

13 Let brotherly-love continue. ² Do not be forgetting hospitality, for through this some having entertained^[a] angels did not know it. ³ Remember^[b] the prisoners, as-though having been imprisoned-with them; the ones being mistreated, as-though^[c] also yourselves being in their body. ⁴ Let marriage be^[d] honored^[e] by all^[f], and the bed undefiled. For God will judge the sexually-immoral-ones and adulterers. ⁵ Let character be without-love-of-money, being content with the present things. For He Himself has said [in Deut 31:6] “I will never^[g] let you go^[h], nor will I by any means forsake^[i] you”, ⁶ so that while being confident we say “The Lord is a helper for me and I will not fear. What^[j] will a human do to me?” [Ps 118:6].

Imitate The Faith of Your Leaders. Do Not Be Carried Away By Strange Teachings

⁷ Remember the ones leading you, who spoke the word of God to you, whose faith^[k] be imitating while looking-carefully-at the result^[l] of their way-of-life^[m]. ⁸ Jesus^[n] Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

¹⁵ Therefore through Him let us be continually offering a sacrifice of ^[a] praise to God— that is, the fruit of lips praising^[b] His name. ¹⁶ And do not be forgetting good-doing and sharing. For with such sacrifices God is pleased.

At The House of a Pharisee, Jesus Heals a Man With Dropsy On The Sabbath

14 And it came about at His going into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were closely-watching Him.

Jesus Says To The Ones Invited, Humble Yourself. Wait On The One Who Invited You

⁷ And He was speaking a parable^[a] to the ones having been invited, fixing-His-attention-on^[b] how they were choosing the places-of-honor, saying to them— ⁸ “Whenever you are invited by someone to wedding-celebrations, do not lie down [to eat] in the place-of-honor lest a more distinguished one than you may have been invited by him, ⁹ and having come, the one having invited you and him will say to you, ‘Give your place to this one’, and then you will begin to hold the last place with shame. ¹⁰ But whenever you are invited, having gone, fall back [to eat] in the last place, so that when the one having invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’. Then there will be glory for you in the presence of all the ones reclining back with you [to eat]. ¹¹ Because everyone exalting himself will be humbled. And the one humbling himself will be exalted”.

Jesus Says To The One Who Invited Him, Serve Those Who Cannot Repay

¹² And He was also saying to the one having invited Him, “Whenever you make a morning-meal^[c] or a dinner, do not be calling your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors— that they also might not perhaps invite you in return, and it become a repayment^[d] to you. ¹³ But whenever you make a reception, be inviting poor ones, crippled ones, lame ones, blind ones, ¹⁴ and you will be blessed because they do not have the means to repay you. For it will be repaid to you at the resurrection of the righteous”.