Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² Keep the sabbath day to hallow it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee.

¹³ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

¹⁴ but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy bondman, nor thy handmaid, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy sojourner that is within thy gates; that thy bondman and thy handmaid may rest as well as thou.

¹⁵ And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence with a powerful hand and with a stretched-out arm; therefore Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee to observe the sabbath day.

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.

81 Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;

² Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.

³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:

⁴ For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;

⁵ He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.

⁶ I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

⁷ Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸ Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

⁹ There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

¹⁰ I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

⁵ For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.

⁶ Because [it is] the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in [the] face of [Jesus] Christ.

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

⁸ every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;

⁹ persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

¹⁰ always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;

¹¹ for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

¹² so that death works in us, but life in you.

²³ And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.

²⁴ And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath what is not lawful?

²⁵ And *he* said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, *he* and those with him,

²⁶ how he entered into the house of God, in [the section of] Abiathar [the] high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?

²⁷ And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of man, not man on account of the sabbath;

²⁸ so that the Son of man is lord of the sabbath also.

3 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was there a man having his hand dried up.

² And they watched him if he would heal him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him.

³ And he says to the man who had his hand dried up, Rise up [and come] into the midst.

⁴ And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.

⁵ And looking round upon them with anger, distressed at the hardening of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched [it] out, and his hand was restored.

⁶ And the Pharisees going out straightway with the Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.