Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired that he might die, and said, “It is now enough! O LORD, take my soul. For I am no better than my fathers.”

⁵ And as he lay, and slept under the Juniper tree, behold, now, an Angel touched him, and said to him, “Up. Eat.”

⁶ And when he looked around, behold, there was a cake, baked on the coals, and a pot of water, by his head. So he ate and drank and returned and slept.

⁷ And the Angel of the LORD came again a second time, and touched him, and said, “Up. Eat. For you have a great journey.”

⁸ Then he arose and ate and drank and walked in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights, to Horeb, the Mount of God.

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.

²⁵ Therefore, having laid aside lying, everyone speak truth to his neighbor. For we are members one of another.

²⁶ Be angry, but do not sin. Do not let the Sun go down upon your irritation,

²⁷ nor give place to the devil.

²⁸ Let him who stole, steal no more. But rather, let him labor and work with his hands that which is good, so that he may have something to give to those in need.

²⁹ Let no worthless word proceed out of your mouth, but only if it is good for edification, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom you are sealed for the Day of Redemption.

³¹ Let all bitterness and fury and anger, clamor and slander, be taken from you, along with all wickedness.

³² Be kind one to another, and tender-hearted, freely forgiving one another; even as God, for Christ’s sake, freely forgave you.

5 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children.

² And walk in love, just as Christ has loved us and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savor to God.

³⁵ And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to Me shall not hunger, and the one who believes in Me shall never thirst.

⁴¹ The Jews then grumbled at Him because He said, ‘I am the bread which has come down from Heaven.’

⁴² And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, Whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, “I came down from Heaven?”

⁴³ Then Jesus answered, and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

⁴⁴ “No one can come to Me unless the Father, Who has sent Me, draws him. And I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁵ “It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God’. Therefore, everyone who has heard, and has learned from the Father, comes to Me.

⁴⁶ “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He Who is from God; He has seen the Father.

⁴⁷ “Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in Me has everlasting life.

⁴⁸ “I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹ “Your fathers ate Manna in the wilderness and are dead.

⁵⁰ “This is the bread which comes down from Heaven, so that anyone who eats of it should not die.

⁵¹ “I am the living bread which came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”