Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
101 I will sing mercy and judgment. To You, O LORD, I will sing!
2 I will do wisely in the perfect way, till You come to me. I will walk in the uprightness of my heart in the midst of my house.
3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away. It shall not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart shall depart from me. I will know no evil.
5 He who secretly slanders his neighbor, I will destroy. He who has a proud look and high heart, I cannot allow.
6 My eyes shall be to the faithful of the land, so that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
7 No deceitful person shall dwell within my house. He who tells lies shall not remain in my sight.
8 Early will I destroy all the wicked of the land, so that I may cut off all the workers of iniquity from the City of the LORD. A prayer of the afflicted, when he shall be in distress and pour forth his meditation before the LORD
9 And in the fourth year of King Hezekiah (which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel) Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it.
10 And after three years, they took it, in the sixth year of Hezekiah. That is, in the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 Then, the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria and put them in Halah, and in Habor, by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
12 because they would not obey the Voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His Covenant—all that Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded—and would neither obey nor do them.
13 Moreover, in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the strong cities of Judah and took them.
14 Then Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to the king of Assyria, to Lachish, saying, “I have offended. Depart from me, and whatever you lay upon me I will bear.” And the king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah, king of Judah, three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 Therefore, Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the House of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16 In the same season, Hezekiah pulled off the plating of the doors of the Temple of the LORD, and the pillars (which said Hezekiah, king of Judah, had covered over) and gave them to the king of Assyria.
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah, with a great army, against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they had come up, they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is by the path of the fuller’s field,
18 and called to the king. Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah (who was steward of the house), came out to them, and Shebna the chancellor, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.
6 If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, who has been nourished in the words of faith and good doctrine which you have continually followed.
7 But, reject worldly and old wives’ fables. And train yourself towards godliness.
8 For bodily exercise profits a little. But godliness is profitable towards all things, having the promise of this life and of that which is to come.
9 This is a true saying, and by all means worthy to be received.
10 For this we labor and are rebuked: because we trust in the living God, Who is the Savior of all mankind, especially those who believe.
11 Command and teach these things.
12 Let no one despise your youth. But be an example to those who believe - in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith and in pureness.
13 Until I come, pay attention to reading, to encouragement, and to doctrine.
14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.
15 Attend to these things. Give yourself to them. So that your progress may be seen among all.
16 Pay attention to yourself, and to learning. Persist in it. For in so doing, you shall both save yourself and those who hear you.
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