Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

46 God is our hope and strength; help in troubles, ready to be found.

² Therefore, we will not fear, though the Earth be moved and though the mountains fall into the midst of the sea.

³ The waters thereof rage and are troubled; the mountains shake at the surges of the same. Selah.

⁴ Still, there is a River whose stream shall make glad the City of God, the Sanctuary of the Tabernacles of the Most High.

⁵ God is in the midst of it; therefore, it shall not be moved. God shall help it in the dawning.

⁶ When the nations raged and the kingdoms were moved, God thundered, and the Earth melted.

⁷ The LORD of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

⁸ Come and behold the works of the LORD, what desolations He has made on the Earth.

⁹ He makes wars cease, to the ends of the world. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear and burns the chariots with fire.

¹⁰ “Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted on the Earth.”

¹¹ The LORD of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. To him who excels: A Psalm committed to the sons of Korah.

12 For the LORD had said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.

² “And I will make a great nation from you, and will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.

³ “I will also bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and in you shall all families of the Earth be blessed.”

⁴ So, Abram departed, just as the LORD instructed him; and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

⁵ Then, Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother’s son, and all their substance that they possessed, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.

⁶ So, Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, and to the plain of Moreh (and the Canaanite was in the land then).

⁷ And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, “To your seed will I give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD Who had appeared to him.

⁸ Afterward, leaving there for the mountain east of Bethel, he pitched his tent (having Bethel on the West side and Ai on the east). And there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the Name of the LORD.

⁹ Again, Abram went forth, going and journeying toward the south.

¹⁷ But as God has distributed to everyone, as the Lord has called everyone, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

¹⁸ Is any man called circumcised? Let him not be uncircumcised. Is any called uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the Commandments of God.

²⁰ Let everyone remain in the same vocation to which he was called.

²¹ Are you called as a slave? Do not worry. But if you still may be free, rather use that.

²² For he who is called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freeman. Likewise, he who is called in freedom, is Christ’s slave.

²³ You are bought with a price. Do not become the slaves of man.

²⁴ Brothers, let everyone, wherein he was called, remain therein with God.