Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ “The Lord God hath given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning; He wakeneth Mine ear to hear as the learned.

⁵ The Lord God hath opened Mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

⁶ I gave My back to the smiters and My cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not My face from shame and spitting.

⁷ For the Lord God will help Me, therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

⁸ He is near that justifieth Me. Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is Mine adversary? Let him come near to Me.

⁹ Behold, the Lord God will help Me. Who is he that shall condemn Me? Lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

116 I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications.

² Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.

³ The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.

⁴ Then I called upon the name of the Lord: “O Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul!”

⁵ Gracious is the Lord and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

⁶ The Lord preserveth the simple; I was brought low, and He helped me.

⁷ Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

⁸ For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

⁹ I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

3 My brethren, let not many be masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

² For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body.

³ Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

⁴ Behold also the ships, which though they be so great and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the helmsman pleases.

⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a wood a little fire kindleth!

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.

⁷ For every kind of beast and bird and serpent and thing in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, by mankind.

⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

⁹ Therewith we bless God, even the Father, and therewith we curse men, who are made in the similitude of God.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

¹¹ Doth a fountain send forth from the same place sweet water and bitter?

¹² Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, or a vine figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

²⁷ And Jesus went out with His disciples into the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way He asked His disciples, saying unto them, “Who do men say that I am?”

²⁸ And they answered, “John the Baptist; but some say Elijah, and others, one of the prophets.”

²⁹ And He said unto them, “But whom say ye that I am?” And Peter answered and said unto Him, “Thou art the Christ.”

³⁰ And He charged them that they should tell no man of Him.

³¹ And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and by the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

³² And He spoke that saying openly. And Peter took Him and began to rebuke Him.

³³ But when He had turned about and looked on His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, “Get thee behind Me, Satan; for thou savorest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.”

³⁴ And when He had called the people unto Him with His disciples also, He said unto them, “Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

³⁵ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospel’s, the same shall save it.

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

³⁷ Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

³⁸ Whosoever, therefore, shall be ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”