Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁰ And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

¹¹ So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

¹² For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees of the country shall clap their hands.

¹³ Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named for an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.

65 Unto the end, a canticle of a psalm of the resurrection. Shout with joy to God, all the earth,

² Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise.

³ Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.

⁴ Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a psalm to thy name.

⁵ Come and see the works of God; who is terrible in his counsels over the sons of men.

⁶ Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him.

⁷ Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes behold the nations; let not them that provoke him he exalted in themselves.

⁸ O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and make the voice of his praise to be heard.

⁹ Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be moved:

¹⁰ For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.

¹¹ Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on our back:

¹² Thou hast set men over our heads. We have passed through fire and water, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment.

¹³ I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

8 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

² For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh; God sending his own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh;

⁴ That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

⁵ For they that are according to the flesh, mind the things that are of the flesh; but they that are according to the spirit, mind the things that are of the spirit.

⁶ For the wisdom of the flesh is death; but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.

⁷ Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be.

⁸ And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

¹⁰ And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin; but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

¹¹ And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

13 The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side.

² And great multitudes were gathered unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.

³ And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

⁴ And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and ate them up.

⁵ And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth.

⁶ And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.

⁷ And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked them.

⁸ And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold.

⁹ He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁸ Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.

¹⁹ When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.

²⁰ And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy.

²¹ Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized.

²² And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.

²³ But he that received the seed upon good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one an hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.