Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

² But his delight is in the Law of the LORD. And on His Law does he meditate day and night.

³ For he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters, that will bring forth her fruits in due season; whose leaf shall not fade. So, whatever he shall do shall prosper.

⁴ The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶ For the LORD knows the way of the righteous. And the way of the wicked shall perish.

² And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all the Earth in the land of Egypt,

³ “the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those great miracles and wonders.

⁴ “Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

⁵ ‘And I have led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old upon you, nor has your shoe grown old upon your foot.

⁶ ‘You have neither eaten bread nor drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.’

⁷ “Afterward, you came to this place. And Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us to battle. And we killed them

⁸ “and took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh.

⁹ “Therefore, keep the words of this Covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in all that you shall do.

¹⁰ “Every one of you stands before the LORD your God this day—the heads of your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel,

¹¹ “your children, your wives and the stranger who is in your camp (from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water) —

¹² “so that you could enter into the Covenant of the LORD your God and into His oath (which the LORD your God makes with you this day)

¹³ “to establish you this day as a people to Himself, and so that He may be to you a God, as He has said to you and as He has sworn to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁴ “Nor do I make this Covenant and this Oath with you only,

¹⁵ “but also with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, as with him who is not here with us this day.

¹⁶ “For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the midst of the nations by which you have passed.

¹⁷ “And you have seen their abominations and their idols (wood and stone, silver and gold) which were among them,

¹⁸ “so that there should not be among you man or woman or family or tribe which should turn his heart away from the LORD our God this day — to go and serve the gods of these nations — so that there should not be a root among you who brings forth bitterness and wormwood;

¹⁹ “so that when he hears the words of this curse, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, although I walk according to the stubbornness of my own heart’, thus adding drunkenness to thirst.

²⁰ “The LORD will not be merciful to him. But then the wrath of the LORD and His jealousy shall smolder against that man. And every curse that is written in this Book shall land upon him. And the LORD shall put out his name from under Heaven.

³⁴ “Do not think that I came to send peace to the Earth. I did not come to send peace, but the sword.

³⁵ “For I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

³⁶ “And a man’s enemies shall be those of his own household.

³⁷ “The one who loves father or mother more than Me, is not worthy of Me. And the one who loves son or daughter more than Me, is not worthy of Me.

³⁸ “And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after Me, is not worthy of Me.

³⁹ “The one who finds his life, shall lose it. And the one who loses his life for My sake, shall find it.

⁴⁰ “The one who receives you, receives Me. And the one who receives Me, receives Him Who sent Me.

⁴¹ “The one who receives a Prophet in the name of a Prophet, shall receive a Prophet’s reward. And the one who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive the reward of a righteous man.

⁴² “And whoever shall give one of these little ones merely a cup of cold water to drink (in the name of a disciple), truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”