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.

⁶ ¶ Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD, for I have spread you abroad by the four winds of the heavens, saith the LORD.

⁷ O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon, thou must escape.

⁸ For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; After the glory he shall send me unto the Gentiles which spoiled you, for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.

⁹ For, behold, I raise my hand regarding them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants; and ye shall know that the LORD of the hosts has sent me.

¹⁰ ¶ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, said the LORD.

¹¹ And many Gentiles shall join themselves unto the LORD in that day and shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and then thou shalt know that the LORD of the hosts has sent me unto thee.

¹² And the LORD shall possess Judah his portion in the holy land and shall still choose Jerusalem.

¹³ Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD, for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

⁷ ¶ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.

⁸ Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.

⁹ So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

¹⁰ And I found that the same commandment, which was unto life, was mortal unto me.

¹¹ For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed me.

¹² So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

¹³ Was then that which is good made death unto me? No, in no wise. But sin, to show itself sin by that which is good, worked death in me, making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment.

¹⁴ ¶ For we now know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by sin.

¹⁵ For that which I do, I do not understand, and not even the good that I desire is what I do; but what I hate, that is what I do.

¹⁶ If then I do that which I do not desire, I approve that the law is good.

¹⁷ So that it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

¹⁸ And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.

¹⁹ For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not desire, that I do.

²⁰ And if I do that which I do not desire, I am not working, but sin that dwells in me.