Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites! For the Lord has a covenant lawsuit against the people of Israel. For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God.

What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

As the sun was setting, all those who had any relatives sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. He placed his hands on every one of them and healed them.

Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich.

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

They answered him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

You are to put them in one basket and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.

Crumble it in pieces and pour olive oil on it – it is a grain offering.

“‘This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he is to present to the Lord.

“Tell the Israelites, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

As for any person who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people!

You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work.