Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²² And rising early he took his two wives, and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.

²³ And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,

²⁴ He remained alone: and behold a man wrestled with him till morning.

²⁵ And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.

²⁶ And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

²⁷ And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.

²⁸ But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

²⁹ Jacob asked him, Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.

³¹ And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.

121 I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

² Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

³ Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

⁴ For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.

⁵ Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.

⁶ Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love thee.

⁷ Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.

⁸ For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.

¹⁴ But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned, and which have been committed to thee: knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

¹⁵ And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice,

¹⁷ That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.

4 I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom:

² Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

³ For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:

⁴ And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

⁵ But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry. Be sober.

18 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray, and not to faint,

² Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God, nor regarded man.

³ And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.

⁴ And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor regard man,

⁵ Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.

⁶ And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.

⁷ And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard?

⁸ I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?