Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of Your compassions, put away my iniquities.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity; and cleanse me from my sin.

³ For I know my iniquities; and my sin is ever before me.

⁴ Against You, against You only, have I sinned and done evil in Your sight; that You may be just when You speak and pure when You judge.

⁵ Behold, I was born in iniquity; and in sin my mother conceived me.

⁶ Behold, You love truth to the core. Therefore, You have taught me wisdom in my core.

⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

⁸ Make me hear joy and gladness; so that the bones which You have broken may rejoice.

⁹ Hide Your Face from my sins; and put away all my iniquities.

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

6 So when men began to be multiplied upon the Earth, and there were daughters born to them,

² Then the sons of God saw the daughters of men (that they were fair) and they took wives of all whom they liked.

³ Therefore the LORD said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, because he is but flesh. And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”

⁴ There were giants on the Earth in those days—and also after that—when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and children had been borne to them. These were mighty men, who, in old time, were men of renown.

⁵ When the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the Earth (and all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually),

⁶ then it caused the LORD to regret that He had made man on the Earth; and He was sorry in His heart.

1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the Commandment of God our Savior, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,

² To Timothy, my natural son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ As I urged you when I departed into Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that you may charge some to teach no other doctrine,

⁴ or to consider fables and endless genealogies (which breed questions rather than godly edifying, which is by faith).

⁵ For the purpose of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience, and faith without hypocrisy.

⁶ Some have erred from such things and have turned to mindless twaddle.

⁷ They wish to be teachers of the Law and yet do not understand what they say or the things they affirm.

⁸ And we know that the Law is good if one uses it lawfully,

⁹ knowing this: that the Law is not given for the righteous, but for the lawless and disobedient; for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for killers of fathers and mothers, for murderers,

¹⁰ for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and anything else contrary to wholesome doctrine,

¹¹ according to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God which was entrusted to me.