Sunday 27 September 2026

25“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’Hear now, house of Israel:Is my way not equal?Aren’t your ways unequal?26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness,and commits iniquity,and dies in it, then he dies in his iniquity that he has done.27Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickednessthat he has committed,and does that which is lawful and right,he will save his soul alive.28Because he considers,and turns away from all his transgressionsthat he has committed,he shall surely live.He shall not die.

4Show me your ways, Lord.Teach me your paths.5Guide me in your truth, and teach me,for you are the God of my salvation.I wait for you all day long.

6Lord, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness,for they are from old times.7Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.Remember me according to your loving kindness,for your goodness’ sake, Lord.

8Good and upright is the Lord,therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.9He will guide the humble in justice.He will teach the humble his way.

1If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ,if any consolation of love,if any fellowship of the Spirit,if any tender mercies and compassion,2make my joy full by being like-minded,having the same love,being of one accord, of one mind;3doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit,but in humility, each counting others better than himself;4each of you not just looking to his own things,but each of you also to the things of others.

5Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,6who, existing in the form of God,didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,7but emptied himself,taking the form of a servant,being made in the likeness of men.8And being found in human form,he humbled himself,becoming obedient to the point of death,yes, the death of the cross.9Therefore God also highly exalted him,and gave to him the name which is above every name,10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,of those in heaven,those on earth, and those under the earth,11and that every tongue should confessthat Jesus Christ is Lord,to the glory of God the Father.

28But what do you think?A man had two sons,and he came to the first,and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’29He answered, ‘I will not,’but afterward he changed his mind, and went.30He came to the second, and said the same thing.He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.31Which of the two did the will of his father?”

They said to him, “The first.”

Jesus said to them,“Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectorsand the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.32For John came to you in the way of righteousness,and you didn’t believe him;but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him.When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward,that you might believe him.