Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

103 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me! Praise His Holy Name!

² Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits!

³ Who forgives all your iniquity and heals all your infirmities.

⁴ Who redeems your life from the grave and crowns you with mercy and compassions.

⁵ Who satisfies your mouth with good things; and your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

⁶ The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all who are oppressed.

⁷ He made His ways known to Moses and His works to the children of Israel.

⁸ The LORD is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great kindness.

¹² Then Solomon offered Burnt Offerings to the LORD on the Altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the porch,

¹³ to offer according to the commandment of Moses every day, on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the solemn Feasts, three times in the year: at the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, and at the Feast of the Weeks, and at the Feast of the Tabernacles.

¹⁴ And he set the divisions of the priests to their offices, according to the order of David his father and the Levites in their watches, to praise and minister before the priests every day and the gatekeepers by their divisions, at every gate. For so was the commandment of David, the man of God.

¹⁵ And they did not decline from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites, touching all things and touching the treasures.

17 Now as they passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

² And Paul (as was his custom) went in and argued with them from the Scriptures for three Sabbaths,

³ Opening, and alleging, that Christ must have suffered and risen again from the dead; and saying, “This is Jesus Christ. Whom I preach to you.”

⁴ And some of them believed (also a great multitude of the Greeks who feared God, and not a few of the chief women) and joined with Paul and Silas.

⁵ But the Jews who did not believe - moved with envy – took some wicked fellows from the marketplace. And when they had assembled a multitude, they made a disturbance in the city. And they assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.

⁶ But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the heads of the city, crying, “Those who have subverted the state of the world are here also!

⁷ “Jason has received them. And they all act against the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another King - Jesus!”

⁸ And they troubled the people and the heads of the city, when they heard these things.

⁹ Nevertheless, when they had received bail from Jason and the others, they let them go.