Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

103 Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name!

² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits—

³ who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases,

⁴ who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies,

⁵ who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

⁶ The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

⁷ He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel.

⁸ The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy.

¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch,

¹³ according to a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses on the Sabbaths and on the new moons and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year: on the Feast of Unleavened Bread and on the Feast of Weeks and on the Feast of Tabernacles.

¹⁴ And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests for their service, and the Levites to their charges to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the gatekeepers also by their courses at every gate, for so had David the man of God commanded.

¹⁵ And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasurers.

17 Now when they had 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 unto them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

³ expounding and alleging that it was necessary for Christ to have suffered and risen again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ.”

⁴ And some of them believed, and joined themselves with Paul and Silas, as did a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and of the chief women not a few.

⁵ But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, engaged certain wicked fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a crowd and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.

⁶ And when they found them not, they dragged Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, “These that have turned the world upside down have come hither also,

⁷ and Jason hath received them; and they all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.”

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

⁹ And when they had taken security from Jason and the others, they let them go.