Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

TETH.

⁶⁵ ¶ Thou hast dealt well with thy slave, O LORD, according unto thy word,

⁶⁶ which teaches me discernment and knowledge, for I have believed thy commandments.

⁶⁷ ¶ Before I was humbled, I went into error, but now I keep thy spoken word.

⁶⁸ ¶ Thou art good and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

⁶⁹ ¶ The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

⁷⁰ Their heart became fat like grease, but I delight in thy law.

⁷¹ ¶ It was good for me that I have been humbled, that I might learn thy statutes.

⁷² ¶ The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

²⁷ ¶ And if any one of the people of the land sins through ignorance, by doing something against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and is guilty,

²⁸ as soon as his sin, which he has committed, comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering, a she goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

²⁹ And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin and slay the sin in the place of the burnt offering.

³⁰ Then the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out all its blood at the bottom of the altar.

³¹ And he shall take away all its fat, as the fat was taken away from off the sacrifice of peace; and the priest shall incense it upon the altar in a very acceptable aroma unto the LORD; and thus shall the priest reconcile him, and he shall have forgiveness.

¹⁴ ¶ And the LORD spoke further unto Moses, saying,

¹⁵ When any person commits a trespass and sins through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring for the expiation of his guilt unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, in thy estimation of two shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for his guilt;

¹⁶ And he shall pay for the sin that he has done in the holy thing and shall add the fifth part thereto and give it unto the priest; and the priest shall reconcile him with the ram of the expiation of his guilt, and he shall have forgiveness.

¹¹ Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from the carnal desires which war against the soul

¹² and have your honest conversation among the Gentiles, so that, in that which they murmur about you as of evildoers, having witnessed your good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹³ ¶ Therefore, be subject to every human ordinance that is of the Lord, whether it be to a king or to a superior,

¹⁴ and unto governors as unto those that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those that do well.

¹⁵ For this is the will of God, that in well doing ye may silence the ignorance of vain men,

¹⁶ as being free, yet not using your liberty to cover maliciousness, but as slaves of God.

¹⁷ Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.