Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

34 I will always give thanks to the LORD. His praise shall be in my mouth continually.

² My soul shall glory in the LORD. The humble shall hear it and be glad.

³ Praise the LORD with me; and let us magnify His Name together.

⁴ I sought the LORD, and He heard me. Indeed, He delivered me out of all my fear.

⁵ They shall look to Him and run; and their faces shall not be ashamed.

⁶ This poor man cried; and the LORD heard and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁷ The Angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him and delivers them.

⁸ Taste and see how gracious the LORD is. Blessed is the man who trusts in Him.

²⁰ Then Saul fell full length on the earth and was very afraid because of the words of Samuel, so that there was no strength in him. For he had eaten no bread all day or all night.

²¹ Then the woman came to Saul and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “See, your handmaid has obeyed your voice; and I have put my soul in my hand and have obeyed your words which you said to me.

²² “Now, therefore, you please also listen to the voice of your handmaid and let me set a morsel of bread before you, so that you may eat and strengthen yourself and go on your journey.”

²³ But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him. And he obeyed their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

²⁴ Now, the woman had a fat calf in the house. And she hurried and killed it and took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread from it.

²⁵ Then she brought them before Saul, and before his servants. And when they had eaten, they stood up and went away the same night.

15 We who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

² Let everyone please his neighbor for good toward edification.

³ For Christ would not please Himself, either. But as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you, fell on Me.”

⁴ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning. So that we, through the endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures, might have hope.

⁵ Now may the God of endurance and encouragement grant that you be like-minded towards one another, according to Christ Jesus.

⁶ That you, with one mind and with one mouth, may praise God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.