Moses Makes New Tablets

¹The Lord said to Moses, w“Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, xand I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, ywhich you broke. ²Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me zon the top of the mountain. ³No aone shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” ⁴So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. ⁵The Lord bdescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and cproclaimed the name of the Lord. ⁶The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, d“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and egracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast flove and faithfulness, ⁷gkeeping steadfast love for thousands,1 hforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but iwho will by no means clear the guilty, jvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” ⁸And Moses quickly kbowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. ⁹And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please llet the Lord go in the midst of us, for mit is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for nyour inheritance.”

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰And he said, “Behold, oI am making a covenant. Before all your people pI will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an qawesome thing that I will do with you.

¹¹“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, rI will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ¹²sTake care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a tsnare in your midst. ¹³You shall utear down their altars and vbreak their pillars and cut down their wAsherim ¹⁴(for xyou shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), ¹⁵slest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they ywhore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and zyou are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶and you take of atheir daughters for your sons, and their daughters ywhore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

¹⁷b“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

¹⁸c“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in dthe month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. ¹⁹eAll that open the womb are mine, all your male2 livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. ²⁰The ffirstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And gnone shall appear before me empty-handed.

²¹h“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. ²²iYou shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. ²³jThree times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. ²⁴For I will kcast out nations before you and lenlarge your borders; mno one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

²⁵n“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, oor let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. ²⁶pThe best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. qYou shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.”

²⁷And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words rI have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ²⁸sSo he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he twrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.3

The Shining Face of Moses

²⁹When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with uthe two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face vshone because he had been talking with God.4 ³⁰Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face wshone, and they were afraid to come near him. ³¹But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. ³²Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he xcommanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. ³³And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a yveil over his face.

³⁴Whenever Moses zwent in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, ³⁵the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was ashining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

¹Now nbefore othe Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that phis hour had come qto depart out of this world to the Father, rhaving loved shis own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. ²During supper, when tthe devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, ³Jesus, knowing uthat the Father had given all things into his hands, and that vhe had come from God and wwas going back to God, ⁴rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, xtied it around his waist. ⁵Then he ypoured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ⁶He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” ⁷zJesus answered him, “What I am doing ayou do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” ⁸bPeter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, c“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” ⁹Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” ¹⁰Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, dexcept for his feet,1 but is completely clean. And eyou2 are clean, fbut not every one of you.” ¹¹gFor he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹²When he had washed their feet and hput on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, i“Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³jYou call me kTeacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, lyou also ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵For I have given you an example, mthat you also should do just as I have done to you. ¹⁶Truly, truly, I say to you, na servant3 is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷If you know these things, oblessed are you if you do them. ¹⁸pI am not speaking of all of you; I know qwhom I have chosen. But rthe Scripture will be fulfilled,4 s‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ ¹⁹tI am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. ²⁰Truly, truly, I say to you, uwhoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”

One of You Will Betray Me

²¹After saying these things, vJesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, w“Truly, truly, I say to you, xone of you will betray me.” ²²yThe disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. ²³zOne of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table aat Jesus' side,5 ²⁴so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus6 of whom he was speaking. ²⁵bSo that disciple, cleaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” ²⁶Jesus answered, d“It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread ewhen I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, fhe gave it to Judas, gthe son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷Then after he had taken the morsel, hSatan entered into him. Jesus said to him, i“What you are going to do, do quickly.” ²⁸Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. ²⁹Some thought that, jbecause Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need kfor the feast,” or that he should lgive something to the poor. ³⁰So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. mAnd it was night.

A New Commandment

³¹When he had gone out, Jesus said, n“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and oGod is glorified in him. ³²If God is glorified in him, pGod will also glorify him in himself, and qglorify him at once. ³³Little children, ryet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just sas I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ ³⁴tA new commandment uI give to you, vthat you love one another: wjust as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. ³⁵xBy this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus Foretells Peter's Denial

³⁶Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” yJesus answered him, “Where I am going zyou cannot follow me now, abut you will follow afterward.” ³⁷bPeter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” ³⁸Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, cthe rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

The Proverbs of Solomon

¹cThe proverbs of Solomon.

dA wise son makes a glad father,

ebut a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

²fTreasures gained by wickedness do not profit,

gbut righteousness delivers from death.

³hThe Lord does not let the righteous go hungry,

ibut he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

⁴A slack hand jcauses poverty,

kbut the hand of the diligent makes rich.

⁵He who lgathers in summer is a prudent son,

but he who sleeps in harvest is ma son who brings shame.

⁶Blessings are on the head of the righteous,

but nthe mouth of the wicked conceals violence.1

⁷oThe memory of the righteous is a blessing,

but pthe name of the wicked will rot.

⁸qThe wise of heart will receive commandments,

but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

⁹rWhoever walks in integrity walks securely,

but he who makes his ways crooked swill be found out.

¹⁰Whoever twinks the eye causes trouble,

and a babbling fool will come to ruin.

¹¹uThe mouth of the righteous is va fountain of life,

but the mouth of the wicked nconceals violence.

¹²Hatred stirs up strife,

but wlove covers all offenses.

¹³On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found,

but xa rod is for the back of him who ylacks sense.

¹⁴The wise zlay up knowledge,

but athe mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

¹⁵bA rich man's wealth is his strong city;

the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

¹⁶The wage of the righteous leads cto life,

the gain of the wicked to sin.

¹⁷Whoever heeds instruction is on dthe path to life,

but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

¹⁸The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,

and whoever utters slander is a fool.

¹⁹eWhen words are many, transgression is not lacking,

fbut whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

²⁰The tongue of the righteous is gchoice silver;

the heart of the wicked is of little worth.

²¹The lips of the righteous feed many,

but fools die for hlack of sense.

²²iThe blessing of the Lord makes rich,

and he adds no sorrow with it.2

²³Doing wrong is jlike a joke to a fool,

but kwisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

²⁴lWhat the wicked dreads mwill come upon him,

but nthe desire of the righteous will be granted.

²⁵When othe tempest passes, the wicked is no more,

but pthe righteous is established forever.

²⁶Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,

so is the sluggard to those who send him.

²⁷qThe fear of the Lord prolongs life,

rbut the years of the wicked will be short.

²⁸sThe hope of the righteous brings joy,

tbut the expectation of the wicked will perish.

²⁹uThe way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless,

but destruction to evildoers.

³⁰vThe righteous will never be removed,

but wthe wicked will not dwell in the land.

³¹xThe mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,

but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

³²The lips of the righteous yknow what is acceptable,

but the mouth of the wicked, zwhat is perverse.

The Mystery of the Gospel Revealed

¹For this reason I, Paul, oa prisoner of Christ Jesus pon behalf of you Gentiles— ²assuming that you have heard of qthe stewardship of rGod's grace that was given to me for you, ³show the mystery was made known to me tby revelation, uas I have written briefly. ⁴vWhen you read this, you can perceive my insight into wthe mystery of Christ, ⁵which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. ⁶This mystery is1 that the Gentiles are xfellow heirs, ymembers of the same body, and zpartakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

⁷aOf this gospel I was made ba minister according to the gift of cGod's grace, which was given me dby the working of his power. ⁸To me, ethough I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, fto preach to the Gentiles the gunsearchable hriches of Christ, ⁹and ito bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery jhidden for ages in2 God, kwho created all things, ¹⁰so that through the church the manifold lwisdom of God mmight now be made known to nthe rulers and authorities oin the heavenly places. ¹¹This was paccording to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, ¹²in whom we have qboldness and raccess with sconfidence through our tfaith in him. ¹³So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering ufor you, vwhich is your glory.

Prayer for Spiritual Strength

¹⁴For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, ¹⁵from whom wevery family3 in heaven and on earth is named, ¹⁶that according to xthe riches of his glory yhe may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit zin your inner being, ¹⁷aso that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being brooted and cgrounded in love, ¹⁸may have strength to dcomprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and eheight and depth, ¹⁹and to know the love of Christ fthat surpasses knowledge, that gyou may be filled with all hthe fullness of God.

²⁰iNow to jhim who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, kaccording to the power at work within us, ²¹lto him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.