Revised Common Lectionary Scripture Texts for Year C, Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts/?y=384&z=e&d=19& Jeremiah 17:5-10 * Psalm 1 * 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 * Luke 6:17-26 Jeremiah 17:5-10 ------------ Those who trust the Lord are like trees 17:5 Thus says the LORD: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the LORD. 17:6 They shall be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 17:7 Blessed are those who trust in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 17:8 They shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit. 17:9 The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse-- who can understand it? 17:10 I the LORD test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings. Psalm 1 ------------ The way of the righteous 1:1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers, 1:2 but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law they meditate day and night. 1:3 They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper. 1:4 The wicked are not so but are like chaff that the wind drives away. 1:5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, 1:6 for the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 ------------ Christ has been raised 15:12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 15:13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised, 15:14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15:15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ--whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 15:16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 15:17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins. 15:18 Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. 15:19 If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. 15:20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. Luke 6:17-26 ------------ Blessings on the poor, woes on the rich 6:17 He came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. 6:18 They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 6:19 And everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them. 6:20 Then he looked up at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 6:21 "Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 6:22 "Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. 6:23 Rejoice on that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven, for that is how their ancestors treated the prophets. 6:24 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. 6:25 "Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. "Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. 6:26 "Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets."