Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁸ And Jehovah hath given me knowledge, and I know [it]; then thou shewedst me their doings.

¹⁹ And I was like a tame lamb [that] is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, [saying,] Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

²⁰ But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David; when the Ziphites came, and said to Saul, Is not David hiding himself with us?

54 O God, by thy name save me, and by thy strength do me justice.

² O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.

³ For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.

⁴ Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that uphold my soul.

⁵ He will requite evil to mine enemies: in thy truth cut them off.

⁶ I will freely sacrifice unto thee; I will praise thy name, O Jehovah, because it is good.

⁷ For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; and mine eye hath seen [its desire] upon mine enemies.

¹³ Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;

¹⁴ but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.

¹⁶ For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.

¹⁸ But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.

4 Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence,—from your pleasures, which war in your members?

² Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

³ Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

⁷ Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.

³⁰ And going forth from thence they went through Galilee; and he would not that any one knew it;

³¹ for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.

³² But they understood not the saying, and feared to ask him.

³³ And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he asked them, Of what were ye reasoning by the way?

³⁴ And they remained silent, for by the way they had been reasoning with one another who [was] greatest.

³⁵ And sitting down he called the twelve; and he says to them, If any one would be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.

³⁶ And taking a little child he set it in their midst, and having taken it in his arms he said to them,

³⁷ Whosoever shall receive one of such little children in my name, receives me; and whosoever shall receive me, does not receive me, but him who sent me.