Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

113 Praise, O you servants of the LORD! Praise the Name of the LORD!

² Blessed be the Name of the LORD from henceforth and forever!

³ The LORD’s Name is praised from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same.

⁴ The LORD is high above all nations, His Glory above the heavens.

⁵ Who is like the LORD our God, Who has His dwelling on High;

⁶ Who abases Himself to behold things in the heavens and on the Earth?

⁷ He raises the needy out of the dust, lifts up the poor out of the dung,

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

⁹ He makes the barren woman dwell with a family, a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

23 “You shall not bring a false report, nor shall you put in your hand with the wicked, to be a false witness.

² “You shall not follow a multitude to evil, nor testify in a dispute to follow after many and pervert justice.

³ “You shall not be partial to a poor man in his cause.

⁴ “If you meet your enemy’s ox, or his donkey, going astray, you shall bring it back to him.

⁵ “If you see your enemy’s donkey lying under his load, and would decline to help him, you shall indeed help him up again with it.

⁶ “You shall not pervert the rights of the poor in his suit.

⁷ “You shall keep yourself far from a false matter. You shall kill neither the innocent nor the righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

⁸ “You shall take no gifts. For a gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁹ “You shall not oppress a stranger. For you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

3 What, then, is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

² Much in every way! Firstly, because indeed the oracles of God were entrusted to them.

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

⁴ Absolutely not! Indeed, let God be true, and every man a liar! As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and overcome when you are judged.”

⁵ Now, if our unrighteousness exhibits the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous in punishing? (I speak as a man.)

⁶ Absolutely not! Or else, how shall God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God has abounded more through my lie, unto His Glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

⁸ Rather, why not say (as we are slanderously accused of saying, and as some affirm that we say) “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Their damnation is just.