Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God has commanded thee.

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

¹⁴ but the seventh day is the sabbath unto the LORD thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy manslave nor thy maidslave nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any animal of thine nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, that thy manslave and thy maidslave may rest as well as thou.

¹⁵ And remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt and that the LORD thy God brought thee out of there with a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore, the LORD thy God has commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

To the Overcomer upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ ¶ Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

² Take the song and play the timbrel, the harp of joy with the psaltery.

³ Blow the shofar in the new moon in the time appointed on our solemn feast day.

⁴ For this is a statute of Israel and an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

⁵ This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt where I heard a language that I did not understand.

⁶ I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from working with clay.

⁷ Thou didst call 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, O my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me,

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

¹⁰ I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

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

⁶ For the God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to bring forth the light of the knowledge of the clarity of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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

⁸ ¶ We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are unsure of our lives, but not in despair;

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

¹⁰ always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

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

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

²³ And it came to pass that as he went through the planted fields again on the sabbath day, his disciples began, as they walked, to pluck the ears of grain.

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

²⁵ And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, he and those that 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 is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?

²⁷ And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath;

²⁸ therefore the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

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 him on the sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

³ So he said unto the man who had the withered hand, Stand forth.

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

⁵ And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out and his hand was restored whole as the other.

⁶ And as the Pharisees went forth, they took counsel with the Herodians against him, to kill him.