Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

² But his delight is in the Law of the LORD. And on His Law does he meditate day and night.

³ For he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters, that will bring forth her fruits in due season; whose leaf shall not fade. So, whatever he shall do shall prosper.

⁴ The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶ For the LORD knows the way of the righteous. And the way of the wicked shall perish.

²⁵ “Then I fell down before the LORD. For forty days and forty nights I fell down, because the LORD had said that He would destroy you.

²⁶ “And I prayed to the LORD, and said, ‘O LORD God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance, which You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt by a mighty Hand.

²⁷ ‘Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,

²⁸ ‘lest the country from where you brought them, say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them”, or “Because He hated them, He carried them out to kill them in the wilderness”.

²⁹ ‘Yet, they are Your people and Your inheritance, which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched Arm.’”

10 “At the same time, the LORD said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone, just like the first, and come up to Me onto the mount. And make yourself an ark of wood.

² ‘And I will write upon the tablets the words that were upon the first Tablets, which you broke. And you shall put them in the ark.

³ “And I made an ark out of shittim wood and hewed two tablets of stone, just like the first, and went up onto the mountain. And the two tablets were in my hand.

⁴ “Then He wrote upon the Tablets, according to the first writing (the Ten Commandments, which the LORD spoke to you on the mount, out of the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly). And the LORD gave them to me.

⁵ “And I departed and came down from the mount and put the Tablets in the Ark, which I had made. And there they are, as the LORD Commanded me.

⁷ In all things, show yourself to be an example of good works - with uncorrupted doctrine, gravity, integrity,

⁸ and sound speech that cannot be condemned - so that whoever opposes you may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

¹¹ For the grace of God which brings salvation to all mankind has appeared,

¹² and teaches us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly lusts; and that we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world,

¹³ looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the Glory of the mighty God, and of our Savior, Jesus Christ;

¹⁴ Who gave Himself for us so that He might redeem us from all iniquity and cleanse us to be a peculiar people for Himself, zealous for good works.

¹⁵ Speak these things. And encourage and convict with all authority. See that no one despises you.