Thursday, January 17, 2019

The Daily Lectionary for FRIDAY, January 18, 2019

Directions concerning Marriage
1 Corinthians 7:1-7

The Daily Lectionary
FRIDAY, January 18, 2019
(Revised Common Lectionary Year C)

Psalm 36:5-10
5  Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
     your faithfulness to the clouds.
6  Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
     your judgments are like the great deep;
     you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.

7  How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
     All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8  They feast on the abundance of your house,
     and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
9  For with you is the fountain of life;
     in your light we see light.

10 O continue your steadfast love to those who know you,
     and your salvation to the upright of heart!

Jeremiah 3:19-25
19 I thought
     how I would set you among my children,
   and give you a pleasant land,
     the most beautiful heritage of all the nations.
   And I thought you would call me, My Father,
     and would not turn from following me.
20 Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband,
     so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel,
   says the Lord.

21 A voice on the bare heights is heard,
     the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children,
   because they have perverted their way,
     they have forgotten the Lord their God:
22 Return, O faithless children,
     I will heal your faithlessness.

   “Here we come to you;
     for you are the Lord our God.
23 Truly the hills are a delusion,
     the orgies on the mountains.
   Truly in the Lord our God
     is the salvation of Israel.

24 “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our ancestors had labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

1 Corinthians 7:1-7
Directions concerning Marriage
7:1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is well for a man not to touch a woman.” 2 But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 This I say by way of concession, not of command. 7 I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.

Optional parts of the readings are set off in square brackets.

The Bible texts of the Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel lessons are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.

The Daily Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. We are currently in Year C. Beginning with the first Sunday of Advent in 2019, we will be in Year A. The year which ended at Advent 2018 was Year B. These readings complement the Sunday and festival readings: Thursday through Saturday readings help prepare the reader for the Sunday ahead; Monday through Wednesday readings help the reader reflect and digest on what they heard in worship. Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings, copyright © 2005 Consultation on Common Texts. www.commontexts.org
Each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

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