Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁶⁹ [Taw.] My loud cry cometh near before Thee, O Jehovah; According to Thy word cause me to understand.

¹⁷⁰ My supplication cometh in before Thee, According to Thy saying deliver Thou me.

¹⁷¹ My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.

¹⁷² My tongue doth sing of Thy saying, For all Thy commands [are] righteous.

¹⁷³ Thy hand is for a help to me, For Thy commands I have chosen.

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy law [is] my delight.

¹⁷⁵ My soul liveth, and it doth praise Thee, And Thy judgments do help me.

¹⁷⁶ I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

¹¹ And a certain aged prophet is dwelling in Beth-El, and his son cometh and recounteth to him all the deed that the man of God hath done to-day in Beth-El, the words that he hath spoken unto the king, -- yea, they recount them to their father.

¹² And their father saith unto them, `Where [is] this -- the way he hath gone?' and his sons see the way that the man of God hath gone who came from Judah.

¹³ And he saith unto his sons, `Saddle for me the ass,' and they saddle for him the ass, and he rideth on it,

¹⁴ and goeth after the man of God, and findeth him sitting under the oak, and saith unto him, `Art thou the man of God who hast come from Judah?' and he saith, `I [am].'

¹⁵ And he saith unto him, `Come with me to the house, and eat bread.'

¹⁶ And he saith, `I am not able to turn back with thee, and to go in with thee, nor do I eat bread or drink with thee water in this place,

¹⁷ for a word [is] unto me by the word of Jehovah, Thou dost not eat bread nor drink there water, thou dost not turn back to go in the way in which thou camest.'

¹⁸ And he saith to him, `I also [am] a prophet like thee, and a messenger spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, and he doth eat bread and drink water;' -- he hath lied to him.

¹⁹ And he turneth back with him, and eateth bread in his house, and drinketh water.

²⁰ And it cometh to pass -- they are sitting at the table -- and a word of Jehovah is unto the prophet who brought him back,

²¹ and he calleth unto the man of God who came from Judah, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, Because that thou hast provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and hast not kept the command that Jehovah thy God charged thee,

²² and turnest back and dost eat bread and drink water in the place of which He said unto thee, Thou dost not eat bread nor drink water -- thy carcase cometh not in unto the burying-place of thy fathers.'

²³ And it cometh to pass, after his eating bread, and after his drinking, that he saddleth for him the ass, for the prophet whom he had brought back,

²⁴ and he goeth, and a lion findeth him in the way, and putteth him to death, and his carcase is cast in the way, and the ass is standing near it, and the lion is standing near the carcase.

²⁵ And lo, men are passing by, and see the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing near the carcase, and they come and speak [of it] in the city in which the old prophet is dwelling.

3 If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

² the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

³ for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

⁴ when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

⁵ Put to death, then, your members that [are] upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

⁶ because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

⁷ in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

⁸ but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.

⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

¹⁰ and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

¹¹ where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.