Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

32 Blessed is he whose wickedness is forgiven; whose sin is covered.

² Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

³ When I held my tongue (my bones being consumed when I roared all day,

⁴ for Your hand is heavy upon me day and night) and my moisture turned into the drought of Summer (Selah),

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I thought, “I will confess to the LORD my wickedness against myself.” And You forgave the punishment of my sin. Selah.

⁶ Therefore, everyone who is godly shall make his prayer to You in a time when You may be found. Surely, in the flood of great waters they shall not come near him.

⁷ You are my Secret Place. You preserve me from trouble. You surround me with joyful deliverance. Selah.

⁸ “I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you shall go. I will guide you with My eye.

⁹ “Be not like a horse, or like a mule, which do not understand; whose mouths you bind with bit and bridle, lest they come near you.”

¹⁰ Many sorrows shall come to the wicked. But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.

¹¹ Be glad, you righteous, and rejoice in the LORD; and be joyful, all you who are upright in heart!

¹⁴ That day, the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel. And they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

¹⁵ And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

¹⁶ “Command the priests who bear the Ark of the Testimony to come up out of the Jordan.”

¹⁷ Joshua, therefore, commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan.”

¹⁸ And when the priests who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and as soon as the soles of the priests’ feet were set on the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks, as they did before.

¹⁹ So the people came up out of the Jordan, on the tenth of the first month, and pitched in Gilgal, on the East side of Jericho.

²⁰ Also, the twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan Joshua pitched in Gilgal.

²¹ And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children shall ask their fathers in times to come, and say, ‘What do these stones mean?’,

²² “then you shall make it known to your children, and say, ‘Israel came over the Jordan on dry land.

²³ ‘For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you, until you had gone over, as the LORD your God did the Red Sea (which He dried up before us until we had gone over),

²⁴ ‘so that all the people of the world may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, so that you might fear the LORD your God continually.’”

⁶ Therefore we are always bold; although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

⁷ For we walk by faith, and not by sight.

⁸ Nevertheless, we are bold, and are well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

⁹ Therefore also, we desire eagerly, whether present or absent, to be acceptable to Him.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that everyone may receive the things done through the body, according to what he has done, whether good or evil.

¹¹ Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade man and are made manifest to God. And I trust also that we are made manifest in your consciences.

¹² For we do not commend ourselves to you again but give you an occasion to exult on our behalf, so that you may have an answer toward those who rejoice in appearance, and not in the heart.

¹³ For if we are out of our wits, we are so to God: or if we are in our right minds, we are so to you.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us,

¹⁵ because we thus judge: that if One is dead for all, then were all dead. And He died for all, so that those who live, should henceforth no longer live for themselves, but for Him Who died for them and rose again.