Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

15 LORD, who shall dwell in Your Tabernacle? Who shall rest on Your Holy Mountain?

² He who walks uprightly and works righteousness and speaks the truth in his heart;

³ he who does not slander with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbor, nor receive a false report against his neighbor;

⁴ in whose eyes a vile person is despised; but honors those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own injury yet does not change.

⁵ He who does not give his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. Michtam of David.

13 Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, toward the south.

² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold.

³ And he went on his journey from the south toward Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

⁴ to the place of the altar which he had made there at the beginning. And there, Abram called on the Name of the LORD.

⁵ And Lot, also, who went with Abram, had sheep and cattle and tents,

⁶ And the land could not bear them, so that they might dwell together. For their substance was great; and they could not dwell together.

⁷ Also, there was debate between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle. And the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled in the land at that time.

⁸ Then Abram said to Lot, “I urge you, let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen. For we are brothers.

⁹ “Is not the whole land before you? I encourage you to depart from me. If you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or, if you go to the right hand, then I will take the left.”

¹⁰ So, when Lot lifted up his eyes, he saw that all the plain of Jordan was watered, everywhere (for before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was as the Garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar).

¹¹ Then Lot chose all the plain of Jordan and took his journey from the east; and they departed from each other.

¹² Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan; and Lot stayed in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.

¹³ Now, the men of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners against the LORD.

¹⁴ Then the LORD said to Abram (after Lot had departed from him), “Lift up your eyes now, and look from the place where you are—northward and southward and eastward and westward—

¹⁵ “for all the land which you see I will give to you and your seed, forever.

¹⁶ “And I will make your seed as the dust of the Earth (so that if a man could number the dust of the Earth, so shall your seed be numbered).

¹⁷ “Arise! Walk through the land, in the length thereof and breadth thereof. For I will give it to you.”

¹⁸ Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelled in the plain of Mamre (which is in Hebron) and built an altar to the LORD there.

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ (from Whom is named every family in Heaven and on Earth)

¹⁶ so that He might grant - according to the riches of His Glory - that you be strengthened by His Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ So that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;

¹⁸ so that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend (with all saints) what is the breadth and length and depth and height;

¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge. So that you may be filled with all fullness of God.

²⁰ Now therefore, to the One Who is able to do all things exceedingly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us;

²¹ to Him be praise in the church and in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations, forever. Amen.