Sunday 7 March 2038

18Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul.You shall bind them for a sign on your hand,and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.· · · verses 19–25 are not read26Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:27the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God,which I command you today;28and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God,but turn away out of the way which I command you today,to go after other gods which you have not known.· · · verses 29–31 are not read32You shall observe to do all the statutesand the ordinances which I set before you today.

2In you, Lord, I take refuge.Let me never be disappointed.Deliver me in your righteousness.3Bow down your ear to me.Deliver me speedily.

3Be to me a strong rock,a house of defense to save me.4For you are my rock and my fortress,therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

17Make your face to shine on your servant.Save me in your loving kindness.

25Be strong, and let your heart take courage,all you who hope in the Lord.

21But now apart from the law,a righteousness of God has been revealed,being testified by the law and the prophets;22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to alland on all those who believe.For there is no distinction,23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;24being justified freely by his grace through the redemptionthat is in Christ Jesus,25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood,for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins,in God’s forbearance;· · · verses 26–27 are not read28We maintain thereforethat a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

21“Not everyone who says to me,‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.22Many will tell me in that day,‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name,in your name cast out demons,and in your name do many mighty works?’23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you.Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

24“Everyone thereforewho hears these words of mine and does them,I will liken him to a wise manwho built his house on the rock.25The rain came down,the floods came, and the winds blewand beat on that house;and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.26Everyone who hears these words of mineand doesn’t do them will be like a foolish manwho built his house on the sand.27The rain came down,the floods came, and the winds blewand beat on that house;and it fell—and its fall was great.”