Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶ God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.

⁷ Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.

⁸ The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

⁹ Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath done upon earth,

¹⁰ Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.

¹¹ Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth.

¹² The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

3 And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

² And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

³ And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.

⁴ For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

⁵ And after this the children of Israel shall return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the last days.

²³ But I call God to witness upon my soul, that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy: for in faith you stand.

2 But I determined this with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.

² For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

³ And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.

⁵ And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden you all.

⁶ To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many:

⁷ So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

⁸ Wherefore, I beseech you, that you would confirm your charity towards him.

⁹ For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

¹⁰ And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ.

¹¹ That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.