Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.

² But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

³ And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

⁴ Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

¹² If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them, the Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers:

¹³ And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.

¹⁴ Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.

¹⁵ The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous infirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee, but upon thy enemies.

¹⁶ Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.

¹⁷ If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

¹⁸ Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians,

¹⁹ The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which the Lord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people, whom thou fearest.

²⁰ Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide themselves.

²¹ Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:

²² He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.

²³ But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall slay them until they be utterly destroyed.

²⁴ And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them.

²⁵ Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

²⁶ Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema.

⁷ All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother, and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to you,

⁸ Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you, and comfort your hearts,

⁹ With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of you. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you.

¹⁰ Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin german of Barnabus, touching whom you have received commandments; if he come unto you, receive him:

¹¹ And Jesus, that is called Justus: who are of the circumcision: these only are my helpers in the kingdom of God; who have been a comfort to me.

¹² Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect, and full in all the will of God.

¹³ For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you, and for them that are at Laodicea, and them at Hierapolis.

¹⁴ Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas.

¹⁵ Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in his house.

¹⁶ And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.

¹⁷ And say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it.