when we have done vile deeds?
What right, even if you love us?
How can we who died to sin go on
living it? We should be constant
in seeking you and your strength;
instead we continually ignore you.
Yes, in your goodness you forgive,
but then we return to our old ways.
What are we to say, what are we to do?
We make ourselves slaves to sin.
Only you can set us free. Grant that
we may die to the old life, that we may
walk in newness of life, raised from death
when you make us free…free indeed.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130
Jer. 11:1-8, 14-17
Rom. 6:1-11
John 8:33-47
Selected Verses
Ps. 105:4
Seek the LORD and his strength;
seek his presence continually.
Jer. 11:15
What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done vile deeds? Can vows and sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?
Rom. 6:1-4
What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
John 8:36
“…So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. …” [Jesus to those who wanted to kill him]
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