Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 92
A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.
1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord,
and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 to shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,
and thy faithfulness every night,
3 upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery;
upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work:
I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree:
he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the Lord
shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;
they shall be fat and flourishing;
15 to shew that the Lord is upright:
he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
13 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction:
but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth:
but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life:
but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing:
but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
5 A righteous man hateth lying:
but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way:
but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing:
there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
8 The ransom of a man’s life are his riches:
but the poor heareth not rebuke.
9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth:
but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
10 Only by pride cometh contention:
but with the well advised is wisdom.
11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished:
but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick:
but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.