Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

¹³ Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

¹⁴ The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.

¹⁵ Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the sabbath day.

81 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

² How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

³ Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁴ Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

⁵ They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

⁶ I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

⁷ But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

⁸ Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord; and ourselves your servants through Jesus.

⁶ For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God, and not of us.

⁸ In all things we suffer tribulation, but are not distressed; we are straitened, but are not destitute;

⁹ We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we perish not:

¹⁰ Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.

¹¹ For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake; that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

¹² So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

²³ And it came to pass again, as the Lord walked through the corn fields on the sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward, and to pluck the ears of corn.

²⁴ And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

²⁵ And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he had need, and was hungry himself, and they that were with him?

²⁶ How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him?

²⁷ And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

²⁸ Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.

3 And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand.

² And they watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath days; that they might accuse him.

³ And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the midst.

⁴ And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.

⁵ And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.

⁶ And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.