Scripture Readings
The Sunday After Pentecost
Proper 10 (15) in Year C
For the Sunday during 10 through 16 July
Scripture readings are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® NIV® ©1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. All rights reserved.
Alternate One:
Old Testament
Psalm
Alternate Two:
Old Testament
Psalm
Epistle Reading
Gospel Reading
Old Testament (Alternate One)
This is what he showed me: The
Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,
with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD asked me, “What do
you see, Amos?”
“A plumb line,” I replied.
Then the Lord said, “Look, I am
setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them
no longer.
“The high places of Isaac will be destroyed
and the sanctuaries of Israel will
be ruined;
with my sword I will rise against
the house of Jeroboam.”
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam
king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in
the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
For this is what Amos is saying:
“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
and Israel will surely go into
exile,
away from their native land.’”
Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get
out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread
there and do your prophesying there. Don’t prophesy anymore at
Bethel, because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple of
the kingdom.”
Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither
a prophet nor a prophet’s son, but I was a shepherd, and I also
took care of sycamore-fig trees. But the LORD took me from tending
the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say,
“‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and stop preaching against the
house of Isaac.’
“Therefore this is what the LORD says:
“‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and daughters will
fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
and you yourself will die in a
pagan country.
And Israel will certainly go into exile,
away from their native land.’”
—Amos 7:7-17, NIV
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to the top of this pagePsalm (Alternate One)
God presides in the great assembly;
he gives judgment among the “gods”:
“How long will you defend the unjust
and show partiality to the wicked?
Selah
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;
maintain the rights of the poor
and oppressed.
Rescue the weak and needy;
deliver them from the hand of the
wicked.
“They know nothing, they understand nothing.
They walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth
are shaken.
“I said, ‘You are “gods”;
you are all sons of the Most High.’
But you will die like mere men;
you will fall like every other
ruler.”
Rise up, O God, judge the earth,
for all the nations are your inheritance.
—Psalm 82, NIV
Old Testament (Alternate Two)
Then the LORD your God will
make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in
the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops
of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you
prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, if you obey
the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are
written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God
with all your heart and with all your soul.
Now what I am commanding you today
is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not
up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into
heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” Nor
is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross
the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” No,
the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart
so you may obey it.
—Deuteronomy 30:9-14, NIV
Psalm (Alternate Two)
To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
in you I trust, O my God.
Do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over
me.
No one whose hope is in you
will ever be put to shame,
but they will be put to shame
who are treacherous without excuse.
Show me your ways, O LORD,
teach me your paths;
guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you are good, O LORD.
Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners
in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful
for those who keep the demands
of his covenant.
—Psalm 25:1-10, NIV
Epistle
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy
our brother,
To the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse:
Grace and peace to you from God
our Father.
We always thank God, the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have
heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have
for all the saints—the faith and love that spring from the hope
that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already
heard about in the word of truth, the gospel that has come to
you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing,
just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it
and understood God’s grace in all its truth. You learned it from
Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister
of Christ on our behalf, and who also told us of your love in
the Spirit.
For this reason, since the day
we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking
God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual
wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you
may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every
way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge
of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious
might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and
joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to
share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought
us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption,
the forgiveness of sins.
—Colossians 1:1-14, NIV
Gospel
On one occasion an expert in
the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must
I do to inherit eternal life?”
“What is written in the Law?” he
replied. “How do you read it?”
He answered: “‘Love the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as
yourself.’”
“You have answered correctly,”
Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
But he wanted to justify himself,
so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to
Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped
him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half
dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when
he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite,
when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other
side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and
bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the
man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him.
The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the
innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will
reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
“Which of these three do you think
was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied,
“The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
—Luke 10:25-37, NIV
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