Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁰ All Your works praise You, O LORD, and Your Saints bless You.

¹¹ They show the glory of Your Kingdom, and speak of Your power,

¹² to cause His power and the glorious renown of His Kingdom to be known to the sons of men.

¹³ Your Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all ages.

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are ready to fall.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon You, and You give them their food in due season.

¹⁶ You open Your hand and fulfill the desire of all living things.

¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all His ways, and Holy in all His works.

¹⁸ The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.

³⁸ Afterward, Elisha returned to Gilgal. And a famine was in the land. And the children of the Prophets dwelt with him. And he said to his servant, “Set on the great pot and boil stew for the children of the Prophets.”

³⁹ And one went out into the field to gather herbs and found, as it were, a wild vine and gathered wild gourds from it. His garment full, he came and shredded them into the pot of stew, for they did not know them.

⁴⁰ So, they poured it out for the men to eat. And when they ate the stew, they cried out, and said, “O you man of God! Death is in the pot!” And they could not eat.

⁴¹ Then he said, “Bring flour.” And he cast it into the pot, and said, “Pour it out for the people, so that they may eat.” And there was no harm in the pot.

³¹ Meanwhile, the disciples urged Him, saying, “Master, eat.”

³² But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you know not of.”

³³ Then the disciples said between themselves, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

³⁴ Jesus said to them, “My food is that I may do the will of Him who sent Me and finish His work.

³⁵ “Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes harvest?’ Behold, I say to you lift up your eyes and look at the fields. For they are white toward harvest already.

³⁶ “And the one who reaps, receives reward, and gathers fruit to life eternal; that both the one who sows and the one who reaps might rejoice together.

³⁷ “For herein is the true saying: that one sows and another reaps.

³⁸ “I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labors.”