Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
9 O fear the Lord, ye His saints! For them that fear Him suffer no want.
10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14 Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
13 “Lo, mine eye hath seen all this; mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom!
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?
8 Will ye accept His person; will ye contend for God?
9 Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock Him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not His excellency make you afraid, and His dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 “Hold your peace; let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue mine own ways before Him.
16 He also shall be my salvation, for a hypocrite shall not come before Him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Behold now, I have prepared my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he that will plead with me? For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said unto her, “Give Me to drink.”
8 (For His disciples had gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then said the woman of Samaria unto Him, “How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest a drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria?” For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, “If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee, ‘Give Me to drink,’ thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.”
11 The woman said unto Him, “Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof himself, and his children and his cattle?”
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again,
14 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 The woman said unto Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.”
16 Jesus said unto her, “Go, call thy husband, and come hither.”
17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said unto her, “Thou hast well said, ‘I have no husband’;
18 for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. In that thou saidst truly.”
19 The woman said unto Him, “Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and ye say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said unto her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither on this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.
24 God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said unto Him, “I know that Messiah cometh, who is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said unto her, “I that speak unto thee am He.”
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