Sunday 10 September 2017

7“So you, son of man,I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel.Therefore hear the word from my mouth,and give them warnings from me.8When I tell the wicked,‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way,that wicked man will die in his iniquity,but I will require his blood at your hand.9Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it,and he doesn’t turn from his way;he will die in his iniquity,but you have delivered your soul.

1Oh come, let’s sing to the Lord.Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!2Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.Let’s extol him with songs!

6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.Let’s kneel before the Lord, our Maker,7for he is our God.We are the people of his pasture,and the sheep in his care.Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,9when your fathers tempted me,tested me, and saw my work.

8Owe no one anything, except to love one another;for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.9For the commandments,“You shall not commit adultery,”“You shall not murder,”“You shall not steal,”“You shall not covet,”and whatever other commandments there are,are all summed up in this saying,namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”10Love doesn’t harm a neighbor.Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

15“If your brother sins against you,go, show him his fault between you and him alone.If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.16But if he doesn’t listen,take one or two more with you,that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly.If he refuses to hear the assembly also,let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.18Most certainly I tell you,whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven,and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.19Again, assuredly I tell you,that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask,it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.20For where two or three are gathered together in my name,there I am in the middle of them.”