Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
49 Hear this, all you people! Give ear, all you who dwell in the world,
2 low as well as high, both rich and poor!
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart is of knowledge.
4 I will incline my ear to a parable and utter my high saying upon the harp.
5 Why should I fear in the evil days, when the iniquity at my heels shall surround me?
6 They trust in their goods and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.
7 Yet a man can by no means redeem his brother. He cannot give his ransom to God,
8 (so precious is the redemption of their souls, and ceases forever)
9 so that he may yet live forever and not see the grave.
10 For he sees that wise men die; and also that the ignorant and foolish perish and leave their riches for others.
11 They think their houses and their habitations shall continue forever, from generation to generation. And they call their lands by their names.
12 But man shall not continue in honor. He is like the beasts that die.
24 Do not be envious against evil men, nor desire to be with them.
2 For their heart imagines destruction, and their lips speak mischief.
3 Through wisdom is a house built. And with understanding it is established.
4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
5 A wise man is strong. For a man of understanding increases his strength.
6 For with counsel you shall wage your war. And health is in a multitude of counselors.
7 Wisdom is high to a fool. He cannot open his mouth in the gate.
8 He who plots to do evil, men shall call him an author of wickedness.
9 The wicked thought of a fool is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
10 If you sink down on the day of adversity, your strength is small.
11 Deliver those who are drawn to death. And will you not preserve those who are led to be slain?
12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know of this”, does not He Who ponders hearts understand it? And does not He Who keeps your soul know it? Will He not also repay every man according to his works?
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord: that you henceforth do not walk as other Gentiles walk (in the frivolity of their mind,
18 having their understanding darkened, and being strangers to the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart);
19 who, having grown numb to all feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness for the working of uncleanness with all greediness.
20 But, you have not so learned Christ,
21 if indeed you have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, just as truth is in Jesus.
22 As for your past life, you are to cast off the old man who is being corrupted through deceitful desires,
23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
24 And put on the new man, who has been created according to God for righteousness and true holiness.
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