Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
To the Overcomer upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
1 ¶ Help, LORD; for the merciful man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2 Each one speaks vanity with his neighbour: they speak with flattering lips and with a double heart.
3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaks proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, saith the LORD; I will set in safety the one whom the wicked one has ensnared.
6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
8 The wicked press in on every side when the vilest men are exalted.
17 ¶ Better is a dry morsel in peace than the house of contention full of sacrifices for a feast.
2 ¶ A prudent slave shall have rule over a son that causes shame and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
3 ¶ The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tries the hearts.
4 ¶ An evil doer gives heed to false lips, and a liar gives ear to the tongue which curses.
5 ¶ Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he that is glad regarding the calamity of someone else shall not go unpunished.
19 ¶ Therefore, though I am free regarding everyone, yet I have made myself slave unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those that are under the law;
21 to those that are without law, as without law (being not without law of God, but under the law of Christ), that I might gain those that are without law.
22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to everyone, that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker together of it.
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