Tweny First Sunday After Trinity

Psalm 42

Longing for God and His Help in Distress

To the leader. A Maskil of the Korahites.

1 As a deer longs for flowing streams,   

so my soul longs for you, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God,    

for the living God.

When shall I come and behold    

the face of God?

3 My tears have been my food    

day and night,

while people say to me continually,   

‘Where is your God?’

4 These things I remember,    

as I pour out my soul:

how I went with the throng,    

and led them in procession to the

house of God,

with glad shouts and songs of

thanksgiving,    

a multitude keeping festival.

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,    

and why are you disquieted within

me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise

him,    

my help 6 and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;    

therefore I remember you

from the land of Jordan and of

Hermon,    

from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep    

at the thunder of your cataracts;

all your waves and your billows    

have gone over me.

8 By day the Lord commands his

steadfast love,    

and at night his song is with me,    

a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I say to God, my rock,    

‘Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I walk about mournfully    

because the enemy oppresses me?’

10 As with a deadly wound in my body,    

my adversaries taunt me,

while they say to me continually,    

‘Where is your God?’

11 Why are you cast down, O my soul,    

and why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise

him,    

my help and my God.

1 Corinthians 12: 12-27

One Body with Many Members

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

14 Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot were to say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body’, that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear were to say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body’, that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many members, yet one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you’, nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ 22 On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and those members of the body that we think less honourable we clothe with greater honour, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; 24 whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honour to the inferior member, 25 that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honoured, all rejoice together with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Luke 10 25-37

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 26 He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ 27 He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself.’ 28 And he said to him, ‘You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.’

29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’ 30 Jesus replied, ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan while travelling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, “Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.” 36 Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?’ 37 He said, ‘The one who showed him mercy.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go and do likewise.’