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Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with sequential stories told across multiple weeks.
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Psalm 45:10-17

10 Listen, daughter,(A) and pay careful attention:(B)
    Forget your people(C) and your father’s house.
11 Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;(D)
    honor(E) him, for he is your lord.(F)
12 The city of Tyre(G) will come with a gift,[a](H)
    people of wealth will seek your favor.
13 All glorious(I) is the princess within her chamber;
    her gown is interwoven with gold.(J)
14 In embroidered garments(K) she is led to the king;(L)
    her virgin companions(M) follow her—
    those brought to be with her.
15 Led in with joy and gladness,(N)
    they enter the palace of the king.

16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers;
    you will make them princes(O) throughout the land.

17 I will perpetuate your memory through all generations;(P)
    therefore the nations will praise you(Q) for ever and ever.(R)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 45:12 Or A Tyrian robe is among the gifts

Cross references

  1. Psalm 45:10 : Ru 1:11
  2. Psalm 45:10 : Jer 5:1
  3. Psalm 45:10 : Ru 1:16
  4. Psalm 45:11 : S Est 1:11; S La 2:15
  5. Psalm 45:11 : Eph 5:33
  6. Psalm 45:11 : 1Pe 3:6
  7. Psalm 45:12 : S Jos 19:29
  8. Psalm 45:12 : S 1Ki 9:16; S 2Ch 9:24
  9. Psalm 45:13 : Isa 61:10
  10. Psalm 45:13 : Ex 39:3
  11. Psalm 45:14 : S Jdg 5:30
  12. Psalm 45:14 : Est 2:15
  13. Psalm 45:14 : SS 1:3
  14. Psalm 45:15 : S Est 8:17
  15. Psalm 45:16 : 1Sa 2:8; Ps 68:27; 113:8
  16. Psalm 45:17 : S Ex 3:15; Ps 33:11; 119:90; 135:13
  17. Psalm 45:17 : Ps 138:4
  18. Psalm 45:17 : S Ps 21:4; Rev 22:5
Genesis 25:19-27

Jacob and Esau

19 This is the account(A) of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac.

Abraham became the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old(B) when he married Rebekah(C) daughter of Bethuel(D) the Aramean from Paddan Aram[a](E) and sister of Laban(F) the Aramean.(G)

21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless.(H) The Lord answered his prayer,(I) and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.(J)

23 The Lord said to her,

“Two nations(K) are in your womb,
    and two peoples from within you will be separated;
one people will be stronger than the other,
    and the older will serve the younger.(L)”

24 When the time came for her to give birth,(M) there were twin boys in her womb.(N) 25 The first to come out was red,(O) and his whole body was like a hairy garment;(P) so they named him Esau.[b](Q) 26 After this, his brother came out,(R) with his hand grasping Esau’s heel;(S) so he was named Jacob.[c](T) Isaac was sixty years old(U) when Rebekah gave birth to them.

27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter,(V) a man of the open country,(W) while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 25:20 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia
  2. Genesis 25:25 Esau may mean hairy.
  3. Genesis 25:26 Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he deceives.

Cross references

  1. Genesis 25:19 : S Ge 2:4
  2. Genesis 25:20 : ver 26; Ge 26:34; 35:28
  3. Genesis 25:20 : S Ge 24:67
  4. Genesis 25:20 : S Ge 22:22
  5. Genesis 25:20 : Ge 28:2, 5, 6; 30:20; 31:18; 33:18; 35:9, 26; 46:15; 48:7
  6. Genesis 25:20 : S Ge 24:29
  7. Genesis 25:20 : Ge 31:20, 24; Dt 26:5
  8. Genesis 25:21 : S Ge 11:30
  9. Genesis 25:21 : Ge 30:17, 22; 1Sa 1:17, 23; 1Ch 5:20; 2Ch 33:13; Ezr 8:23; Ps 127:3
  10. Genesis 25:22 : Ex 18:15; 28:30; 33:7; Lev 24:12; Nu 9:6-8; 27:5, 21; Dt 17:9; Jdg 18:5; 1Sa 9:9; 10:22; 14:36; 22:10; 1Ki 22:8; 2Ki 3:11; 22:13; Isa 30:2; Jer 21:2; 37:7, 17; Eze 14:7; 20:1, 3
  11. Genesis 25:23 : S Ge 17:4
  12. Genesis 25:23 : S Ge 9:25; 48:14, 19; Ro 9:11-12*
  13. Genesis 25:24 : Lk 1:57; 2:6
  14. Genesis 25:24 : Ge 38:27
  15. Genesis 25:25 : 1Sa 16:12
  16. Genesis 25:25 : Ge 27:11
  17. Genesis 25:25 : Ge 27:1, 15
  18. Genesis 25:26 : Ge 38:29
  19. Genesis 25:26 : Hos 12:3
  20. Genesis 25:26 : Ge 27:36; 32:27; Dt 23:7; Jos 24:4; Ob 1:10, 12
  21. Genesis 25:26 : S ver 7,S 20
  22. Genesis 25:27 : S Ge 10:9
  23. Genesis 25:27 : ver 29; Ge 27:3, 5
Romans 7:1-6

Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters(A)—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.(B) 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.(C) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law(D) through the body of Christ,(E) that you might belong to another,(F) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a](G) the sinful passions aroused by the law(H) were at work in us,(I) so that we bore fruit for death.(J) 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law(K) so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.(L)

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

Cross references

  1. Romans 7:1 : S Ac 1:16; S 22:5; Ro 1:13; 1Co 1:10; 5:11; 6:6; 14:20, 26; Gal 3:15; 6:18
  2. Romans 7:2 : 1Co 7:39
  3. Romans 7:3 : S Lk 16:18
  4. Romans 7:4 : ver 6; S Ro 6:6; 8:2; Gal 2:19; 3:23-25; 4:31; 5:1
  5. Romans 7:4 : Col 1:22
  6. Romans 7:4 : Gal 2:19, 20
  7. Romans 7:5 : S Gal 5:24
  8. Romans 7:5 : Ro 7:7-11
  9. Romans 7:5 : Ro 6:13
  10. Romans 7:5 : S Ro 6:23
  11. Romans 7:6 : S ver 4
  12. Romans 7:6 : Ro 2:29; 2Co 3:6
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