Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁸ ¶ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

¹⁹ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living soul, that was its name.

²⁰ And the man gave names to every beast, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a help meet for him.

²¹ ¶ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place;

²² and the LORD God built that which he had taken from the side of the man into a woman and brought her unto the man.

²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man.

²⁴ Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.

To the Overcomer upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ O LORD our Lord, how great is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy praise above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

³ ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

⁴ what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and beauty.

⁶ Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

⁷ all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

⁸ The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD our Lord, how great is thy name in all the earth!

1 ¶ God, having spoken many times and in many ways in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

² has in these last times spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;

³ who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

⁴ ¶ being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

⁵ ¶ For unto the angels he has not subjected the world to come, of which we speak.

⁶ But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

⁷ Thou didst make him a little lower than the angels; thou didst crown him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands.

⁸ Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not see yet that all things are put under him.

⁹ But we see this same Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

¹⁰ ¶ For it was expedient that he, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, preparing to bring forth many sons in his glory, should perfect the author of their saving health through sufferings.

¹¹ For both he that sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

¹² saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.

² And the Pharisees came to him and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

³ And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

⁴ And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.

⁵ And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this commandment.

⁶ But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

⁷ For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall join to his wife;

⁸ and they that were two shall be made one flesh, so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.

¹⁰ And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

¹¹ And he said unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another commits adultery against her.

¹² And if the woman shall put away her husband and be married to another, she commits adultery.

¹³ ¶ And they brought young children to him that he should touch them, and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

¹⁴ And Jesus seeing it, became angry and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me and hinder them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.

¹⁵ Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

¹⁶ And taking them up in his arms and putting his hands upon them, he blessed them.