Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶ ¶ Thy throne, O God, is eternal and for ever, the rod of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

⁷ Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness; therefore God, thy God, has 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, by which they have made thee glad.

⁹ Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women; the queen stands at thy right hand with a crown of gold from 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; and bow before him, for he is thy Lord.

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

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 sons, whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

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

3 ¶ Then the LORD said unto me again, Go, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the sons 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 an homer and a half 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 sons of Israel shall abide many days without king and without Lord and without sacrifice and without image, and without ephod and without teraphim;

⁵ afterward the sons of Israel shall return, and they shall seek the LORD their God and David their king; and they shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the end of the days.

²³ Moreover I call God for a witness upon my soul that I have not yet come unto Corinth to spare you.

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

2 ¶ But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in grief.

² For if I make you grieve, who is he then that shall make me glad, but the same who is grieved by me?

³ And I wrote this same unto you, lest when I came, I should have grief 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 how much more charity I have towards you.

⁵ ¶ But if any have caused me grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not put a burden on you all.

⁶ Sufficient to such a one is this reprehension, which was inflicted of many.

⁷ So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.

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

⁹ For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

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

¹¹ lest Satan should deceive us, for we do not ignore his devices.