Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹¹ Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came to him and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: and they told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.

¹² And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed him the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda.

¹³ And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when they had saddled him, he got up,

¹⁴ And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a turpentine tree: and he said to him: Art thou the man of God that camest from Juda? He answered: I am.

¹⁵ And he said to him: Come home with me, to eat bread.

¹⁶ But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I eat bread, nor drink water in this place:

¹⁷ Because the Lord spoke to me in the word of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest.

¹⁸ He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,

¹⁹ And brought him back with him: so he ate bread and drank water in his house.

²⁰ And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back:

²¹ And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

²² And hast returned and eaten bread, and drunk water in the place wherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink water, thy dead body shall not be brought into the sepulchre of thy fathers.

²³ And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass for the prophet, whom he had brought back.

²⁴ And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed him, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the lion stood by the dead body.

²⁵ And behold, men passing by saw the dead body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city, wherein that old prophet dwelt.

3 Therefore, if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above; where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God:

² Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.

³ For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.

⁴ When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

⁶ For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief,

⁷ In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.

⁸ But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

⁹ Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

¹⁰ And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.

¹¹ Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all, and in all.