Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

112 Hallelujah! Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

² His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

³ Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house; and his righteousness abideth for ever.

⁴ Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness; he is gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

⁵ It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment.

⁶ For he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

⁷ He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed confiding in Jehovah;

⁸ His heart is maintained, he is not afraid, until he see [his desire] upon his oppressors.

⁹ He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.

¹⁰ The wicked [man] shall see [it] and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

¹³ If a man take a wife, and go in unto her and hate her,

¹⁴ and charge her with things for scandalous talk, and cause an evil name against her to be spread abroad, and say, This woman have I taken, and I came in unto her, and I did not find her a virgin;

¹⁵ then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate;

¹⁶ and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man as wife, and he hates her;

¹⁷ and behold, he charges her with things for scandalous talk, saying, I found not thy daughter a virgin; and here are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

¹⁸ And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

¹⁹ and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath caused an evil name to be spread abroad against a virgin in Israel. And she shall remain his wife: he may not put her away all his days.

²⁰ But if this thing is true, [and] virginity hath not been found with the damsel;

²¹ then they shall bring out the damsel unto the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought infamy in Israel, committing fornication in her father's house; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

²² If a man be found lying with a man's wife, they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel.

²³ If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her,

²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city, and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

²⁵ But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her, then the man only that lay with her shall die;

²⁶ and unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing: there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and murdereth him, so is this matter;

²⁷ for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was no one to save her.

²⁸ If a man find a damsel, a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found,

²⁹ then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

³⁰ A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

7 But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman;

² but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.

³ Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

⁴ The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

⁶ But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it].

⁷ Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.

⁹ But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.