Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶ Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; the scepter of Thy Kingdom is a righteous scepter.

⁷ Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness; therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.

⁸ All Thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made Thee glad.

⁹ Kings’ daughters were among Thy honorable women; at Thy right hand stood the queen in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people and thy father’s house.

¹¹ So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty, for He is thy Lord; worship thou Him.

¹² And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.

¹³ The King’s daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold.

¹⁴ She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework; the virgins, her companions that follow her, shall be brought unto Thee.

¹⁵ With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought; they shall enter into the King’s palace.

¹⁶ Instead of Thy fathers shall be Thy children, whom Thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

¹⁷ I will make Thy name to be remembered in all generations; therefore shall the people praise Thee for ever and ever.

3 Then said the Lord unto me, “Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love flagons of wine.”

² So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley and a half homer of barley.

³ And I said unto her, “Thou shalt abide for me many days. Thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man. So will I also be for thee.”

⁴ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim.

⁵ Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God and David their king, and shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days.

²³ Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that it was to spare you that I came not as yet unto Corinth,

²⁴ not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers for your joy. For by faith ye stand.

2 But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

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

³ And I wrote as I did unto you lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those 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 unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

⁵ But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part” that I may not overburden you all.

⁶ Sufficient to such a man is this censure, which was inflicted by many,

⁷ so that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

⁸ Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.

⁹ For to this end also did I write, that I might have proof from you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

¹⁰ To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, I forgave it for your sakes in the person of Christ,

¹¹ lest Satan should get an advantage over us. For we are not ignorant of his devices.