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.

14 Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.

² Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

³ Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

⁴ Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods, for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

⁵ I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

⁶ I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

⁷ His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

⁸ They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

⁹ Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.

¹⁰ Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

11 Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly: but do bear with me.

² For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

³ But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

⁴ For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; or another gospel which you have not received; you might well bear with him.

⁵ For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.

⁶ For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been made manifest to you.

⁷ Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself, that you might be exalted? Because I preached unto you the gospel of God freely?

⁸ I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.

⁹ And, when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.

¹¹ Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.

¹² But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

¹³ For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

¹⁴ And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.

¹⁵ Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.