Response Reading: 93. New Year Day (1)
PRES: In the beginning you laid the foundadtions of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands
CONG: They will perish, but you remain
PRES: they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded
CONG: But you remain the same, and your years will never end
PRES: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past
CONG: See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up;
PRES: You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
CONG: to be made new in the attittude of your minds; and to put the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness adn holiness
PRES: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation
CONG: the old has gone, the new has come!
PRES: A new command I give you; love one another
CONG: As I have loved you, so you must love one another