Sunday 6 April 2025

16The Lord, who makes a way in the sea,

and a path in the mighty waters,17who brings out the chariot and horse,the army and the mighty man(they lie down together, they shall not rise;they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:18“Don’t remember the former things,and don’t consider the things of old.19Behold, I will do a new thing.It springs out now.Don’t you know it?I will even make a way in the wilderness,and rivers in the desert.20The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me,because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,to give drink to my people, my chosen,21the people which I formed for myself,that they might declare my praise.

1When the Lord brought back those who returned to Zion,we were like those who dream.2Then our mouth was filled with laughter,and our tongue with singing.

2Then they said among the nations,“The Lord has done great things for them.”3The Lord has done great things for us,and we are glad.

4Restore our fortunes again, Lord,like the streams in the Negev.5Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

6He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing,will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

8Yes most certainly,and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus,my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things,and count them nothing but refuse,that I may gain Christ9and be found in him,not having a righteousness of my own,that which is of the law,but that which is through faith in Christ,the righteousness which is from God by faith,10that I may know him and the power of his resurrection,and the fellowship of his sufferings,becoming conformed to his death,11if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.12Not that I have already obtained,or am already made perfect;but I press on, that I may take hold of that forwhich also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

13Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold,but one thing I do:forgetting the things which are behindand stretching forward to the things which are before,14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

1but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2Now very early in the morning,he came again into the temple,and all the people came to him.He sat down and taught them.3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery.Having set her in the middle,4they told him, “Teacher,we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.What then do you say about her?”6They said this testing him,that they might have something to accuse him of.

But Jesus stooped downand wrote on the ground with his finger.7But when they continued asking him,he looked up and said to them,“He who is without sin among you,let him throw the first stone at her.”8Again he stooped downand wrote on the ground with his finger.

9They, when they heard it,being convicted by their conscience,went out one by one,beginning from the oldest, even to the last.Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.10Jesus, standing up,saw her and said, “Woman,where are your accusers?Did no one condemn you?”

11She said, “No one, Lord.”

Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you.Go your way.From now on, sin no more.”