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Church Lectionary

Season after Pentecost: Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Alternate first reading and Psalm

Moses Urges Israel to be Obedient

1Then Moses said to the people, “Obey all the laws that I am teaching you, and you will live and occupy the land which the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2Do not add anything to what I command you, and do not take anything away. Obey the commands of the LORD your God that I have given you.

Deuteronomy 4:1-2GNBOpen in Bible reader

6Obey them faithfully, and this will show the people of other nations how wise you are. When they hear of all these laws, they will say, ‘What wisdom and understanding this great nation has!’

7“No other nation, no matter how great, has a god who is so near when they need him as the LORD our God is to us. He answers us whenever we call for help. 8No other nation, no matter how great, has laws so just as those that I have taught you today. 9Be on your guard! Make certain that you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Tell your children and your grandchildren

Deuteronomy 4:6-9GNBOpen in Bible reader

What God Requires

1LORD, who may enter your Temple?

Who may worship on Zion, your sacred hill?

2Those who obey God in everything

and always do what is right,

whose words are true and sincere,

3and who do not slander others.

They do no wrong to their friends

nor spread rumours about their neighbours.

4They despise those whom God rejects,

but honour those who obey the LORD.

They always do what they promise,

no matter how much it may cost.

5They make loans without charging interest

and cannot be bribed to testify against the innocent.

Whoever does these things will always be secure.

Psalms 15:1-5GNBOpen in Bible reader
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