Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

And he said to them, When you say your prayers, say, Father, may your name be kept holy and your kingdom come.

The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Away

And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.

And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;

The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.

Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

Receive, etc

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

The calves

I will give praise to the name of God with a song; I will give glory to him for what he has done.

Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.

You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

General references

And when you make an offering of praise to the Lord, make it in a way which is pleasing to him.

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.