Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

12 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?

² How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?

³ How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

⁴ Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death:

⁵ Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me will rejoice when I am moved:

⁶ But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea I will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.

17 Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

² A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.

³ As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

⁴ The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and the deceitful hearkeneth to lying lips.

⁵ He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his Maker; and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.

¹⁹ For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

²⁰ And I became to the Jews, a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:

²¹ To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.

²² To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

²³ And I do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.