Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ LORD, I have called unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

² Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the gift of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

³ Set a watch, O LORD, upon my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

⁴ Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to do works with ungodliness with the men that work iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.

⁵ ¶ Let the righteous smite me in mercy, and let him reprove me: and let not a flattering evil prince anoint my head, for my prayer shall ever be against his evil.

⁶ Their judges shall be thrown down from strong places; they shall hearken unto my words; for they are sweet.

⁷ Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth.

⁸ Therefore mine eyes look unto thee, O GOD the Lord; in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

⁹ Keep me from the hands of the snare which they have laid for me, and from the snares of the workers of iniquity.

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, whilst I pass on ahead forever.

²¹ And I will set my glory among the Gentiles, and all the Gentiles shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

²² So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

²³ ¶ And the Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they rebelled against me, and I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their enemies; so they all fell by the sword.

²⁴ According to their uncleanness and according to their rebellions have I done unto them and hid my face from them.

²⁵ Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Now I will turn the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for my holy name.

²⁶ After they shall feel their shame and all their rebellion by which they have rebelled against me when they dwelt safely in their land, and no one made them afraid.

²⁷ When I bring them again from the peoples and gather them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many Gentiles.

²⁸ And they shall know that I am the LORD their God when after causing them to be led into captivity among the Gentiles; I shall gather them unto their own land, without leaving any of them there any longer.

²⁹ Neither will I hide my face any longer from them, for I will pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, said the Lord GOD.

40 ¶ In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in that same day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me there.

² In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel and set me upon a very high mountain, upon which was as the frame of a city to the south.

³ And he brought me there, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

⁴ And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes and hear with thine ears and set thine heart upon all that I show thee for to the intent that I might show them unto thee art thou brought here: declare all that thou dost see to the house of Israel.

²³ ¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own good, but that of the other.

²⁵ Whatever is sold in the market, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake;

²⁶ for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.

²⁷ If any of those that do not believe bid you to a feast, and ye are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you asking no questions for conscience sake.

²⁸ But if anyone says unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, do not eat it for the sake of him that disclosed it and for conscience sake; for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof:

²⁹ conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other, for why should my liberty be judged by another man’s conscience?

³⁰ For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever ye do, do everything for the glory of God.

³² Be without offense, neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God;

³³ even as I please everyone in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

11 ¶ Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.