Shall I Hate Those who Hate God?--Oct. 30, 2016

Shall I hate those who hate you, O God?

Is it your will that I loathe those who rise up

against you, who have turned back from following

you, or have not sought you, or inquired of you?

No, love is patient, love is kind, love is not

envious, boastful, arrogant, or rude.

If in all these ways I have been

unloving, and you have had

mercy on me, should I

not show mercy

for a fellow

sinner?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Zeph. 1:1-6

1 Cor. 12:27-13:13

Matt. 18:21-35

           

Selected Verses

Ps. 139:21

Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD?
          And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 

Zeph. 1:6

…those who have turned back from following the LORD,
     who have not sought the LORD or inquired of him.

1 Cor. 13:4-5

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful…

Matt. 18:33

"'…Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?…'"  [In Jesus' parable, the king speaking to the slave he had forgiven]