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.

Samech

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

Ain

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.

Pe

¹⁶ Thou dost open thine hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Tzaddi

¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all his ways and merciful in all his works.

Koph

¹⁸ The LORD is near unto all those that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

Resh

¹⁹ He will fulfil the desire of those that fear him; he also will hear their cry and will save them.

Schin

²⁰ The LORD preserves all those that love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Tau

²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

(The parables of Solomon.)

10 ¶ A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.

² ¶ Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

³ The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish, but wickedness shall cast out the wicked.

⁴ ¶ He that deals with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

⁵ ¶ He that gathers in summer is a wise son, but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.

¹⁰ ¶ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again, in which ye were also concerned, but ye lacked opportunity.

¹¹ Not that I speak in respect of want, for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.

¹² I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to have an abundance; in everything and by all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

¹³ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

¹⁴ Notwithstanding ye have done well, that ye did communicate with my tribulation.

¹⁵ Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from Macedonia, no congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.