Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.

¹⁹ And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus the son of Saphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that were ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and when Elias came up to him, he cast his mantle upon him.

²⁰ And he forthwith left the oxen and ran after Elias, and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was my part, I have done to thee.

²¹ And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and rising up he went away, and followed Elias, and ministered to him.

⁹ Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding:

¹⁰ That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God:

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

¹² Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

¹⁴ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins;