Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² ‘Keep the Sabbath day, to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has Commanded you.

¹³ ‘Six days you shall labor and shall do all your work.

¹⁴ ‘But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work—you or your son or your daughter or your manservant or your maid or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or the stranger that is within your gates—so that your manservant and your maid may rest as well as you.

¹⁵ ‘For, remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. And the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty Hand and an outstretched Arm. Therefore, the LORD your God Commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

81 Sing joyfully to God our strength! Sing loud to the God of Jacob!

² Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the viol.

³ Blow the trumpet on the New Moon, in the time appointed at our Feast day.

⁴ For this is a statute for Israel, a Law of the God of Jacob.

⁵ He set this in Joseph for a testimony. When He came out of the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I did not understand.

⁶ “I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden. His hands have left the pots.

⁷ “You called in affliction and I delivered you, answered you in the secret of the thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸ “Hear, O My people, and I will testify to you, O Israel, if you will listen to me

⁹ “and will have no strange god in you or worship any strange god

¹⁰ “(for I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt). Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!

⁵ For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus’ sake.

⁶ For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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

⁸ We are afflicted on every side, yet we are not in distress. We are in doubt, but yet we do not despair;

⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but we do not perish.

¹⁰ Everywhere we carry about in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that the life of Jesus might also be made manifest in our bodies.

¹¹ For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

¹² So then, death works in us, and life in you.

²³ And it happened that as He went through the corn on the Sabbath day, His disciples (as they went on their way) began to pluck the ears of corn.

²⁴ And the Pharisees said to Him, “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; both he and those who were with him?

²⁶ “How he went into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar, the High Priest, and ate the showbread, which was not lawful to eat, but only for the priests. And how he gave also to those who were with him?”

²⁷ And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

²⁸ “So the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”

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

² And they watched Him, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse Him.

³ Then He said to the man who had the withered hand, “Arise. Stand in front of the crowd.”

⁴ And He said to them, “Is it lawful to do a good deed on the Sabbath day, or to do evil; to save the life, or to kill!?” But they did not answer.

⁵ Then He looked at them angrily, mourning also for the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man, “Stretch forth your hand.” And he stretched it out. And his hand was restored, as whole as the other.

⁶ And the Pharisees departed, and immediately gathered a council with the Herodians against Him, so that they might destroy Him.