Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ Gracious and merciful [is] Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

⁹ Good [is] Jehovah to all, And His mercies [are] over all His works.

¹⁰ Confess Thee O Jehovah, do all Thy works, And Thy saints do bless Thee.

¹¹ The honour of Thy kingdom they tell, And [of] Thy might they speak,

¹² To make known to sons of men His mighty acts, The honour of the majesty of His kingdom.

¹³ Thy kingdom [is] a kingdom of all ages, And Thy dominion [is] in all generations.

¹⁴ Jehovah is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down.

1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:

² `Jehovah was wroth against your fathers -- wrath!

³ And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁴ Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵ Your fathers -- where [are] they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?

⁶ Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

7 Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

² for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

³ so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

⁴ So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

⁵ for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

⁶ and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.