Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

96 Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD all the Earth!

² Sing to the LORD! Praise His Name! Declare His salvation from day to day.

³ Declare His Glory among all nations, His wonders among all people.

⁴ For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods.

⁵ For all the gods of the people are idols. But the LORD made the heavens.

⁶ Strength and glory are before Him. Power and beauty are in His Sanctuary.

⁷ Give to the LORD, you families of the people! Give to the LORD glory and power!

⁸ Give to the LORD the glory of His Name. Bring an offering and enter into His courts.

⁹ Worship the LORD in the glorious Sanctuary. Tremble before Him, all the Earth.

¹⁴ And the king turned his face and blessed all the Congregation of Israel. For all the Congregation of Israel stood.

¹⁵ And he said, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, Who spoke with His Mouth to David, my father, and has, with His Hand, fulfilled it, saying,

¹⁶ ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city of all the tribes of Israel to build a House, so that My Name might be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people, Israel.’

¹⁷ “And it was in the heart of David, my father, to build a House to the Name of the LORD God of Israel.

¹⁸ “And the LORD said to David, my father, ‘Insomuch as it was in your heart to build a House to My Name, you did well that you were so minded.

¹⁹ ‘Nevertheless, you shall not build the House. But your son, who shall come out of your loins, he shall build the House to My Name.’

²⁰ “And the LORD has made good His Word that He spoke. And I have risen up in the room of David, my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the House for the Name of the LORD God of Israel.

²¹ “And I have prepared a place for the Ark in it, in which is the Covenant of the LORD which He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

11 I wish you could suffer a little of my foolishness, and indeed, suffer me.

² For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have prepared you for one husband; to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

³ Yet I fear, however, that just as the serpent tricked Eve through his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

⁴ For if someone comes, preaching another Jesus whom we have not preached - or if you receive another spirit whom you have not received, or another gospel which you have not received - you might well tolerate him.

⁵ For I suppose that I am not inferior to the very chief Apostles.

⁶ And though I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge. And among you we have made ourselves clearly understood in all things.