Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁰ “Surely as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and does not return there, but waters the earth and makes it bring forth and bud, so that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

¹¹ “so shall My Word be that goes out of My Mouth. It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I will, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

¹² “Therefore, you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into joy. And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

¹³ “There shall grow fir trees instead of thorns, the myrtle tree shall grow instead of nettles, and it shall be to the LORD for a Name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be taken away.”

92 It is a good thing to praise the LORD, and to sing to Your Name, O Most High,

² to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your truth in the night,

³ upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the viol, with the song upon the harp.

⁴ For You, LORD, have made me glad by Your works; and I will rejoice in the works of Your hands.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree and shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³ Such as are planted in the House of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age. They shall be fat and flourishing,

¹⁵ to declare that the LORD my Rock is righteous and that no iniquity is in Him.

⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shall be raised up incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴ So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up into victory.”

⁵⁵ O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin. And the strength of sin is the Law.

⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, Who has given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, abundant always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

³⁹ And He spoke a parable to them, “Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?

⁴⁰ “The disciple is not above the master. But whoever would be a perfect disciple shall be as his master.

⁴¹ “And why do you see a splinter in your brother’s eye, yet do not consider the beam that is in your own eye?

⁴² “Or, how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me pull out the splinter that is in your eye,’ when you do not see the beam that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! Cast out the beam from your own eye first. And then you shall see perfectly to pull out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye.

⁴³ “For it is not a good tree that brings forth evil fruit, nor an evil tree that brings forth good fruit.

⁴⁴ “For every tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes gathered from bushes.

⁴⁵ “A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good. And an evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

⁴⁶ “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not do the things that I speak?

⁴⁷ “Whoever comes to Me and hears My words, and does the same, I will show you to whom he is like.

⁴⁸ “He is like a man who built a house, and dug deep, and laid the foundation on a rock. And when the waters rose, the flood beat upon that house, but could not shake it. For it was grounded upon a rock.

⁴⁹ “But the one who hears and does not do, is like a man who built a house upon the earth without foundation (against which the flood beat, and it immediately fell). And the fall of that house was great.”