Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
133 1 This Psalm containeth the commendation of brotherly amity among the servants of God.
A song of degrees, or Psalm of David.
1 Behold, how good and how comely a thing it is, brethren to dwell even [a]together.
2 It is like to the precious [b]ointment upon the head, that runneth down upon the beard, even unto Aaron’s beard, which went down on the border of his garments,
3 And as the dew of [c]Hermon which falleth upon the mountains of Zion: for [d]there the Lord appointed the blessing and life forever.
29 And he charged them and said unto them, I am ready to be gathered unto my people: (A)bury me with my fathers in the cave, that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, besides Mamre in the land of Canaan: which cave Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife: there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife: and there I buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and the cave that is therein, was bought of the children of Heth.
33 Thus Jacob made an end of giving charge to his sons, and [a]plucked his feet into the bed, and gave up the ghost, and was gathered to his people.
50 1 Jacob is buried. 19 Joseph forgiveth his brethren. 23 He seeth his children’s children. 26 He dieth.
1 Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face and wept upon him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the [b]physicians to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 So forty days were accomplished (for so long did the days of them that were embalmed last) and the Egyptians bewailed him [c]seventy days.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I have now found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears, of Pharaoh, and say,
5 My father made me (B)swear saying, Lo, I die, bury me in my grave, which I have made me in the land of Canaan: now therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
6 Then Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, [d]as he made thee to swear.
7 ¶ So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, both the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 Likewise all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their children, and their sheep, and their cattle left they in the land of Goshen.
9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and they were an exceeding great company.
10 And they came to [e]Goren Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they made a great and exceeding sore lamentation: and he mourned for his father seven days.
11 And when the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land saw the mourning in Goren Atad, they said, This is a great mourning unto the Egyptians: wherefore the name thereof was called [f]Abel Mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
12 So his sons did unto him, according as he had commanded them:
13 (C)For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which cave (D)Abraham bought with the field, to be a [g]place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite beside Mamre.
14 ¶ Then Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after that he had buried his father.
13 [a]Let us not therefore judge one another anymore: but use your judgment rather in [b]this that no man put an occasion to fall, or a stumbling block before his brother.
14 [c]I know, and am persuaded through the [d]Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of [e]itself: but unto him that judgeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if thy brother be grieved for the meat, now walkest thou not charitably: (A)[f]destroy not him with thy meat, for whom [g]Christ died.
16 [h]Cause not your commodity to be evil spoken of.
17 [i]For the kingdom of God, is not meat nor drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy Ghost.
18 For whosoever in [j]these things serveth Christ, is acceptable unto God, and is approved of men.
19 [k]Let us then follow those things which concern peace, and wherewith one may edify another.
20 Destroy not the work of God for meat’s sake: (B)all things indeed are pure: but it is evil for the man which eateth with offense.
21 (C)It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weak.
22 [l]Hast thou [m]faith? have it with thyself before God: blessed is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he [n]alloweth.
23 For he that [o]doubteth, is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: and whatsoever is not of faith, is sin.
15 1 The stronger must employ their strength to strengthen the weak. 5 By Christ’s example, 7 who received 8 not only the Jews, 10 but also the Gentiles. 15 The cause why he wrote this Epistle.
1 We [p]which are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to [q]please ourselves.
2 Therefore let every man please his neighbor in that that is [r]good to edification.
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