Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave: and behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, Elias?

¹⁰ And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.

¹¹ And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before the Lord over throwing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: the Lord is not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake: the Lord is not in the earthquake.

¹² And after the earthquake a fire: the Lord is not in the fire, and after the fire a whistling of a gentle air.

¹³ And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and coming forth stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered:

¹⁴ With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.

¹⁵ And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way through the desert to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

¹⁶ And thou shalt anoint Jehu the son of Namsi to be king over Israel: and Eliseus the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint to be prophet in thy room.

¹⁷ And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword of Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword of Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.

¹⁸ And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees have not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not worshipped him kissing the hands.

⁸ There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works.

⁹ All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰ For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

¹¹ Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God: with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever:

¹³ For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

⁵ For Moses wrote, that the justice which is of the law, the man that shall do it, shall live by it.

⁶ But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ down;

⁷ Or who shall descend into the deep? that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.

⁸ But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach.

⁹ For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

¹⁰ For, with the heart, we believe unto justice; but, with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.

¹¹ For the scripture saith: Whosoever believeth in him, shall not be confounded.

¹² For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him.

¹³ For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

¹⁴ How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear, without a preacher?

¹⁵ And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things!

²² And forthwith Jesus obliged his disciples to go up into the boat, and to go before him over the water, till he dismissed the people.

²³ And having dismissed the multitude, he went into a mountain alone to pray. And when it was evening, he was there alone.

²⁴ But the boat in the midst of the sea was tossed with the waves: for the wind was contrary.

²⁵ And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking upon the sea.

²⁶ And they seeing him walk upon the sea, were troubled, saying: It is an apparition. And they cried out for fear.

²⁷ And immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying: Be of good heart: it is I, fear ye not.

²⁸ And Peter making answer, said: Lord, if it be thou, bid me come to thee upon the waters.

²⁹ And he said: Come. And Peter going down out of the boat, walked upon the water to come to Jesus.

³⁰ But seeing the wind strong, he was afraid: and when he began to sink, he cried out, saying: Lord, save me.

³¹ And immediately Jesus stretching forth his hand took hold of him, and said to him: O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?

³² And when they were come up into the boat, the wind ceased.

³³ And they that were in the boat came and adored him, saying: Indeed thou art the Son of God.