Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of David, Maschil.

¹ ¶ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

² Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile.

³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my green growth is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and I have not hid my iniquity. I said, I will confess (against myself) my rebellions unto the LORD, and thou shalt forgive the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

⁶ For this shall every one that is merciful pray unto thee in the time when thou may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.

⁷ ¶ Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

²¹ ¶ Make up thy friendship now with him, and thou shalt have peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.

²² Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

²³ If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tent;

²⁴ then thou shalt lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

²⁵ And the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

²⁶ For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

²⁷ Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

²⁸ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

²⁹ When others are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

³⁰ He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and in the pureness of thine hands thou shalt be kept.

23 ¶ Then Job answered and said,

² Today I will also speak with bitterness; my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

³ Oh, that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

⁴ I would order judgment before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say unto me.

⁶ Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but rather he would put it in me.

⁷ There the righteous might dispute with him; and should I escape for ever from the one who condemns me.

⁸ ¶ Behold, I shall go to the east and not find him; and to the west, but I cannot perceive him;

⁹ if he is working to the north, I shall not see him; to the south, he hides himself, that I shall not see him.

¹⁰ But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

¹¹ My feet have held to his steps, I have kept his way, and have not departed.

¹² Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

¹³ ¶ But if he determines something, who can turn him? His soul desired it, and he did it.

¹⁴ Therefore, he will finish that which is necessary for me; and there are many such things in him.

¹⁵ Therefore, I shall fear before his face; I shall consider, and I shall fear him.

¹⁶ For God has made my heart tender, and the Almighty has frightened me.

¹⁷ Why was I not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered my face with the darkness.

1 ¶ Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

² Grace and peace be multiplied unto you in the knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus,

³ as all things that pertain to life and to godliness are given us of his divine power, through the knowledge of him that has called us by his glory and virtue,

⁴ whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be made participants of the divine nature, having fled the corruption that is in the world through lust.

⁵ ¶ Ye also, giving all diligence to the same, show forth virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge;

⁶ and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; and in patience, fear of God;

⁷ and in fear of God, brotherly love; and in brotherly love, charity.

⁸ For if these things are in you and abound, they shall not let you be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ But he that lacks these things is blind and walks feeling the way with his hand, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, give all the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, ye shall never fall.

¹¹ Because in this manner the entrance shall be abundantly administered unto you in the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.