Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

8 Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm of David.

² O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

³ Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

⁴ For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

⁵ What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

⁶ Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

⁷ And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

⁸ Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

⁹ The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

¹⁰ O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all the earth!

20 Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

² And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.

³ And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

⁴ Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation, that is ignorant and just?

⁵ Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this.

⁶ And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.

⁷ Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

⁸ And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his servants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were exceedingly afraid.

⁹ And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast thou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not to do.

¹⁰ And again he expostulated with him, and said, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this?

¹¹ Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:

¹² Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

¹³ And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.

¹⁴ And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara, his wife.

¹⁵ And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

¹⁶ And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember thou wast taken.

¹⁷ And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:

¹⁸ For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

²³ But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, unto that faith which was to be revealed.

²⁴ Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

²⁵ But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.

²⁶ For you are all the children of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ And if you be Christ's, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.