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Lectionary Passages for November 5th, 2006
Proper 26 (31)
[Year B]
Ruth 1:1-18 Theme: loyalty , love
Theme one-liner: loyalty
Ruth 1
Elimelech Moves His Family to Moab 1 In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a severe
famine came upon the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah left his home and
went to live in the country of Moab, taking his wife and two sons with him.
2 The man’s name was Elimelech, and his
wife was Naomi. Their two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites
from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. And when they reached Moab, they settled
there.
3 Then Elimelech died , and Naomi was
left with her two sons. 4 The two sons
married Moabite women. One married a woman named Orpah, and the other a woman
named Ruth. But about ten years later, 5
both Mahlon and Kilion died. This left Naomi alone, without her two sons or her
husband.
Naomi and Ruth Return 6 Then
Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord
had blessed his people in Judah by giving them good crops again. So Naomi and
her daughters-in-law got ready to leave Moab to return to her homeland. 7 With her two daughters-in-law she set out from
the place where she had been living, and they took the road that would lead them
back to Judah.
8 But on the way, Naomi said to her
two daughters-in-law, “Go back to your mothers’ homes. And may the Lord reward you for your kindness to your
husbands and to me. 9 May the Lord bless you with the security of
another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and
wept .
10 “No,” they said. “We want to go
with you to your people.”
11 But Naomi replied, “Why should you
go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your
husbands? 12 No, my daughters, return to
your parents’ homes, for I am too old to marry again. And even if it were
possible, and I were to get married tonight and bear sons, then what? 13 Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse
to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more
bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist against
me.”
14 And again they wept together, and
Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi. 15 “Look,” Naomi said to her, “your
sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the
same.”
16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to
leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will
live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. 17 Wherever you die, I will die, and there I
will be buried. May the Lord
punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!” 18 When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go
with her, she said nothing more.
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Psalm 146 Theme: praise , creation , great , creator
Theme one-liner: praise , praise
Psalm 146
1 Praise the Lord!
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live.
I will
sing praises to my God with my dying breath.
3 Don’t put your confidence in
powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
4 When they breathe their last, they return to the
earth,
and all their plans die with them.
5 But joyful are those who have the God of Israe as their
helper,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
6 He made heaven and earth,
the sea, and
everything in them.
He keeps every promise forever.
7 He gives justice to the oppressed
and food to
the hungry.
The Lord frees
the prisoners.
8 The Lord opens the eyes of the
blind.
The Lord lifts up
those who are weighed down.
The Lord loves the godly.
9 The Lord
protects the foreigners among us.
He cares for the orphans and
widows,
but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.
10 The Lord will reign forever.
He will
be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations.
Praise the Lord!
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Mark 12:28-34 Theme: commandment , heard
Theme one-liner: great , hear
The Most Important Commandment 28 One of the teachers of religious law was standing
there listening to the debate . He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he
asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important ?”
29 Jesus replied, “The most
important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and
only Lord. 30 And you must love the Lord your God with all your
heart, all your soul , all your mind , and all your strength.' 31 The second is equally important: ‘Love your
neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than
these.”
32 The teacher of religious law
replied, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth by saying that there is
only one God and no other. 33 And I know
it is important to love him with all my heart and all my understanding and all
my strength, and to love my neighbor as myself. This is more important than to
offer all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices required in the law .”
34 Realizing how much the man
understood , Jesus said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of
God.” And after that, no one dared to ask him any more questions.
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Hebrews 9:11-14 Theme: fulfill
Theme one-liner: love
Christ Is the Perfect Sacrifice 11 So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the
good things that have come. He has entered that greater, more perfect
Tabernacle in heaven , which was not made by human hands and is not part of this
created world. 12 With his own blood—not
the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time
and secured our redemption forever.
13 Under the old system, the blood of
goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people’s bodies from
ceremonial impurity. 14 Just think how
much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful
deeds so that
we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ
offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins .
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