Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

TETH

⁶⁵ O LORD, You have dealt graciously with Your servant, according to Your Word.

⁶⁶ Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I have believed Your Commandments.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your Word.

⁶⁸ You are good and gracious; teach me Your Statutes.

⁶⁹ The proud have imagined a lie against me, but I will keep Your Precepts with my whole heart.

⁷⁰ Their heart is fat as grease; but my delight is in Your Law.

⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your Statutes.

⁷² The Law of Your Mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

¹² For the day of the LORD of Hosts is upon all the proud and haughty, and upon all that is exalted. And it shall be made low.

¹³ Even upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and exalted, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴ and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵ and upon every high tower, and upon every strong wall,

¹⁶ and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

¹⁷ And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low. And the loftiness of men shall be abased. And the LORD alone shall be exalted on that day.

1 Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s Elect and the acknowledging of the Truth which is according to godliness;

² in the hope of eternal life - which God, Who cannot lie, has promised since before the world began.

³ But He has revealed His Word in due time through preaching, which is committed to me according to the Commandment of God our Savior,

⁴ To Titus, my natural son according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

⁵ For this reason I left you in Crete, so that you would continue to organize the things which remain, and would ordain elders in every city, as I directed you

⁶ (if any are blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who are not accused of wastefulness or disobedient).

⁷ For an overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not willful, not angry, not given to wine, not a brawler, not greedy;

⁸ but one who loves strangers and goodness, is wise, righteous, holy, temperate,

⁹ holding fast the faithful Word according to doctrine, so that he may also be able to encourage with sound doctrine and convince those who speak against it.