Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ ¶ Because thou hast made the LORD, who is my hope, even the most High, thy habitation,

¹⁰ no evil shall befall thee, neither shall any plague come near thy dwelling.

¹¹ For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.

¹² They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thy foot stumble against a stone.

¹³ Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

¹⁴ Because he has set his will upon me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high because he has known my name.

¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and glorify him.

¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him and show him my saving health.

¹⁷ ¶ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the valley of the king.

¹⁸ Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God.

¹⁹ And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of the heavens and of the earth;

²⁰ and blessed be the most high God, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And Abram gave him tithes of all.

²¹ ¶ Then the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons and take the goods to thyself.

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of the heavens and of the earth,

²³ that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet; I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou should say, I have made Abram rich,

²⁴ except only that which the young men have eaten and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, who shall take their portion.

⁷ ¶ Therefore bear one another, as the Christ also bore us, to the glory of God.

⁸ Now I say that Christ Jesus, was a minister of the circumcision, by the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers;

⁹ but that the Gentiles glorify God by mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy name.

¹⁰ And again he says, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

¹¹ And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and magnify him, all the peoples.

¹² And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles shall wait for salvation.

¹³ ¶ And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.