Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

113 Praise ye the Lord! Praise, O ye servants of the Lord; praise the name of the Lord!

² Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.

³ From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the Lord’S name is to be praised.

⁴ The Lord is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens.

⁵ Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high,

⁶ who humbleth Himself to behold the things that are in heaven and on the earth?

⁷ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill,

⁸ that He may set him with princes, even with the princes of His people.

⁹ He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord!

23 “Thou shalt not raise a false report. Put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

² Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause, following many, to divert judgment.

³ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

⁴ “If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

⁵ If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

⁶ “Thou shalt not divert the judgment from thy poor in his cause.

⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter, and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.

⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe, for the bribe blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous.

⁹ “Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

3 What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there in circumcision?

² Much in every way; chiefly because unto them were committed the oracles of God.

³ For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

⁴ God forbid! Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar. As it is written: “That Thou mightest be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest overcome when Thou art judged.”

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)

⁶ God forbid! For then how shall God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God through my lie hath abounded more unto His glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

⁸ And why not say rather (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come”? Their damnation is just!