Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
11 For Your Name’s sake, O LORD, be merciful to my iniquity. For it is great.
12 What man is he who fears the LORD? He will teach him the way he shall choose.
13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the land.
14 The secret of the LORD is revealed to those who fear Him, and His Covenant, to give them understanding.
15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD. For He will bring my feet out of the net.
16 Turn Your face to me; and have mercy upon me. For I am desolate and poor.
17 The sorrows of my heart are enlarged. Draw me out of my troubles.
18 Look upon my affliction, and my travail, and forgive all my sins.
19 Behold my enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 Keep my soul and deliver me. Let me not be confounded; for I trust in You.
19 Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness, than he who perverts his lips and is a fool.
2 For without knowledge the mind is not good. And he who hastes with his feet, sins.
3 The foolishness of a man perverts his way. And his heart frets against the LORD.
4 Riches gather many friends. But the poor is separated from his neighbor.
5 A false witness shall not go unpunished. And he who speaks lies, shall not escape.
6 Many revere the face of the prince, and every man is friend to him who gives gifts.
7 All the brothers of the poor hate him. How much more will his friends depart far from him? Though he pursues with words, still they are not.
8 He who possesses understanding, loves his own soul; and keeps wisdom to find goodness.
9 A false witness shall not go unpunished. And he who speaks lies shall perish.
10 Pleasure is not fitting for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
11 The discretion of man defers his anger. And his glory is to overlook an offense.
12 The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion. But his favor is like the dew upon the grass.
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continual dripping.
14 House and riches are the inheritance of the fathers. But a prudent wife comes from the LORD.
15 Slothfulness causes deep sleep, and a deceitful person shall suffer hunger.
16 He who keeps the commandment, keeps his own soul. He who despises His ways, shall die.
17 He who has mercy upon the poor, lends to the LORD. And the LORD will repay him that which he has given.
11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning: that we should love one another;
12 not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil and his brother’s good.
13 Do not marvel, my brothers, though this world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love his brother remains in death.
15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 By this we have perceived love: that He laid down His life for us. Therefore, we also ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
17 And whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother has need and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?
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