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Lectionary Theme: Bhoo-bhavana danam: Remember the Poor (5th Sunday after Easter)

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    9. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    10. You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God.

    11. You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another.

    12. And you shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God: I am the Lord.

    13. You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.

    14. You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind; you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

    15. You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.

    16. You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not profit by the blood of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

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    1. Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.

    2. I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain.

    3. But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.

    4. But because of false believers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us—

    5. we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

    6. And from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they actually were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those leaders contributed nothing to me.

    7. On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised

    8. (for he who worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me in sending me to the Gentiles),

    9. and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

    10. They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do. Paul Rebukes Peter at Antioch

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    1. We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia;

    2. for during a severe ordeal of affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

    3. For, as I can testify, they voluntarily gave according to their means, and even beyond their means,

    4. begging us earnestly for the privilege of sharing in this ministry to the saints—

    5. and this, not merely as we expected; they gave themselves first to the Lord and, by the will of God, to us,

    6. so that we might urge Titus that, as he had already made a beginning, so he should also complete this generous undertaking among you.

    7. Now as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in utmost eagerness, and in our love for you—so we want you to excel also in this generous undertaking.

    8. I do not say this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love against the earnestness of others.

    9. For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

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    31. “When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

    32. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,

    33. and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left.

    34. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,

    35. for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

    36. I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’

    37. Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food or thirsty and gave you something to drink?

    38. And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you or naked and gave you clothing?

    39. And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’

    40. And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’