Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ ¶ Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

² But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.

⁴ ¶ The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶ For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

² Moses, therefore, called unto all Israel and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his slaves and unto all his land,

³ the great trials which thine eyes have seen, the signs and those great miracles.

⁴ Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear until today.

⁵ And I have brought you forty years through the wilderness; your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and neither has thy shoe waxed old upon thy foot.

⁶ Ye have never eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

⁷ And when ye came unto this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them;

⁸ and we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

⁹ Thou shalt keep, therefore, the words of this covenant and do them that ye may understand all that ye do.

¹⁰ ¶ Ye stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God, your princes of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

¹¹ your little ones, your wives, and thy strangers that dwell within thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water,

¹² that thou may enter into covenant with the LORD thy God and into his oath, which the LORD thy God makes with thee today,

¹³ to confirm thee today as his people and that he may be unto thee as God, as he has said unto thee, and as he has sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁴ Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

¹⁵ but with those that stand here with us today before the LORD our God and also with those that are not here with us today.

¹⁶ For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the Gentiles which ye passed by;

¹⁷ and ye have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they have among them.

¹⁸ Peradventure there shall be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those Gentiles; peradventure there shall be among you a root that bears poison and wormwood;

¹⁹ and it shall be, when that one hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst.

²⁰ The LORD will not forgive him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

³⁴ Think not that I have come to introduce peace into the land; I came not to introduce peace, but a sword.

³⁵ For I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

³⁶ And a man’s foes shall be those of his own household.

³⁷ He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

³⁸ And he that does not take his cross {Gr. Stauros – stake} and follow after me is not worthy of me.

³⁹ He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.

⁴⁰ He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.

⁴¹ He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward, and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

⁴² And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.