Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

⁵ And he lay down and slept under the broom-bush. And behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise, eat!

⁶ And he looked, and behold, at his head was a cake, baked on hot stones, and a cruse of water. And he ate and drank, and lay down again.

⁷ And the angel of Jehovah came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise, eat; for the journey is too great for thee.

⁸ And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

[A Psalm] of David; when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

34 I will bless Jehovah at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

² My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah: the meek shall hear, and rejoice.

³ Magnify Jehovah with me, and let us exalt his name together.

⁴ I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

⁵ They looked unto him, and were enlightened, and their faces were not confounded.

⁶ This afflicted one called, and Jehovah heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁷ The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

⁸ Taste and see that Jehovah is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him!

²⁵ Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

²⁶ Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

²⁷ neither give room for the devil.

²⁸ Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it].

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

³² and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

5 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

² and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

³⁵ [And] Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst at any time.

⁴¹ The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said, I am the bread which has come down out of heaven.

⁴² And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then does *he* say, I am come down out of heaven?

⁴³ Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves.

⁴⁴ No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father [himself], and has learned [of him], comes to me;

⁴⁶ not that any one has seen the Father, except he who is of God, he has seen the Father.

⁴⁷ Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes [on me] has life eternal.

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

⁵⁰ This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.

⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.