When your kindness has
led us to repentance,
may it be a real turning
away from sin--
no pretense, but a
return to you
with our whole hearts.
When you heal us,
create in us a clean heart
and put a new and right
spirit within us.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 5; 147:1-11; 27; 51
Jer. 3:6-18
Rom. 1:26-2:11
John 5:1-18
Selected Verses
Ps. 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.
and put a new and right spirit within me.
Jer. 3:10
Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me
with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says the LORD.
Rom. 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance
and patience? Do you not realize that
God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
John 5:14
Later Jesus found [the man who had been ill 38 years] in the
temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse
happens to you."
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