Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of the Lord,

⁶ even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen. The Lord do so. The Lord perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the Lord’S house and all that is carried away captive from Babylon into this place.

⁷ Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears and in the ears of all the people:

⁸ The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries and against great kingdoms, of war and of evil and of pestilence.

⁹ The prophet who prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known that the Lord hath truly sent him.”

89 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever; with my mouth will I make known Thy faithfulness to all generations.

² For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness shalt Thou establish in the very heavens.”

³ “I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn unto David My servant:

⁴ ‘Thy Seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations.’” Selah

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound! They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance.

¹⁶ In Thy name shall they rejoice all the day, and in Thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

¹⁷ For Thou art the glory of their strength, and in Thy favor our horn shall be exalted.

¹⁸ For the Lord is our defense, and the Holy One of Israel is our King.

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

¹³ Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

¹⁶ Know ye not that to whomever ye yield yourselves as servants to obey, his servants ye become whom ye obey, whether of sin which leads unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷ But God be thanked that though ye were the servants of sin, now ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

¹⁸ Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

¹⁹ I speak in the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as ye have yielded your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now yield your members as servants to righteousness unto holiness.

²⁰ For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

²¹ What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²² But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end, everlasting life.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁴⁰ “He that receiveth you, receiveth Me; and he that receiveth Me, receiveth Him that sent Me.

⁴¹ He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

⁴² And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.”