Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
24 O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom, You have made them all. The Earth is full of Your riches!
25 So great and wide is the sea; in which are innumerable creeping things, both small beasts and great.
26 Thereupon go the ships, and therein plays that Leviathan, whom You have made.
27 All these wait upon You, so that You may give them food in due season.
28 You give it to them, and they gather it. You open Your hand, and they are filled with good things.
29 If You hide Your face, they are troubled. If You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 You send forth Your spirit, and they are created; You renew the face of the Earth.
31 Glory be to the LORD forever. Let the LORD rejoice in His works!
32 He looks on the Earth and it trembles. He touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 I will sing to the LORD all my life. I will praise my God while I live.
34 Let my words be acceptable to Him. I will rejoice in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the Earth, and the wicked, until there are no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!
11 Be astonished, you women who are at ease! Fear, O you careless women! Take off your clothes. Make yourselves bare and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 Men shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields and for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall grow thorns and briers —yea, upon all the houses of joy —in the city of rejoicing.
14 Because the palace shall be forsaken, the noise of the city shall be left. The tower and fortress shall be caves forever —the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks —
15 until the Spirit is poured upon us from above and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the plenteous field is counted as a forest.
16 And judgment shall dwell in the desert. And justice shall remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of justice shall be peace, even the work of justice and quietness and assurance, forever.
16 Then I say, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary one to another, so that you cannot do the things you would like.
18 And if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
19 Moreover, the works of the flesh are obvious: adultery, fornication, impurity, lewdness,
20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, rivalry, dissensions, heresies,
21 envy, murders, drunkenness, gluttony, and the like. And, just as I have told you before, those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
24 For those who are Christ’s, have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, we should also walk in the Spirit.
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