Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

25 Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul;

² O my God, I trust in Thee. Let me not be ashamed; let not mine enemies triumph over me.

³ Yea, let none that wait on Thee be ashamed; let them be ashamed that transgress without cause.

⁴ Show me Thy ways, O Lord; teach me Thy paths.

⁵ Lead me in Thy truth and teach me, for Thou art the God of my salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day.

⁶ Remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to Thy mercy remember Thou me, for Thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.

⁸ Good and upright is the Lord; therefore will He teach sinners in the way.

⁹ The meek will He guide in judgment, and the meek will He teach His way.

⁵ But if a man be just and do that which is lawful and right,

⁶ and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

⁷ and hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath despoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

⁸ he that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

⁹ hath walked in My statutes and hath kept My judgments to deal truly — he is just: he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

¹⁰ “If he beget a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who doeth the like to any one of these things,

¹¹ and who doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

¹² hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath despoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

¹³ hath given forth upon usury and hath taken increase — shall he then live? He shall not live. He hath done all these abominations: he shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.

¹⁴ “Now, lo, if he beget a son who seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth and doeth not the like,

¹⁵ who hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor’s wife,

¹⁶ neither hath oppressed any, hath not withheld the pledge, neither hath despoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment;

¹⁷ who hath taken off his hand from the poor, who hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed My judgments, hath walked in My statutes — he shall not die for the iniquity of his father: he shall surely live.

¹⁸ As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, despoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

³² And we declare unto you glad tidings of the promise which was made unto the fathers:

³³ God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that He hath raised up Jesus again, as it is also written in the second Psalm: ‘Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee.’

³⁴ And concerning that He raised Him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, He said thus: ‘I will give you the sure mercies of David.’

³⁵ Therefore He saith also in another Psalm: ‘Thou shalt not suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.’

³⁶ For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.

³⁷ But He whom God raised again saw no corruption.

³⁸ Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins;

³⁹ and by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses.

⁴⁰ Beware therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the Prophets:

⁴¹ ‘Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for I work a work your days, a work in which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.’”