Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Cheth

⁸ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy.

Teth

⁹ The LORD is good to all; and his tender mercies shine over all his works.

Jod

¹⁰ ¶ Let all thy works praise thee, O LORD, and thy merciful ones bless thee.

Caph

¹¹ They speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power,

Lamed

¹² to make known to the sons of Adam his mighty acts and the glory of the magnificence of his kingdom.

Mem

¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages, and thy dominion endures throughout all generations.

Samech

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all that fall and raises up all those that are oppressed.

1 ¶ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,

² The LORD has been sore displeased with your fathers.

³ Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Turn unto me, said the LORD of the hosts, and I will turn unto you, said the LORD of the hosts.

⁴ Do not be as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, said the LORD.

⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

⁶ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my slaves the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? Therefore they returned from captivity and said, Like as the LORD of the hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.

7 ¶ Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those that know the law), that the law has dominion over a man only as long as he lives?

² For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband.

³ So then if, while her husband lives, she belongs to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress if she belongs to another man.

⁴ Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

⁵ For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

⁶ But now we are free from the law of death in which we were held, that we might serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.