Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

113 Hallelujah! Praise, ye servants of Jehovah, praise the name of Jehovah.

² Blessed be the name of Jehovah, from this time forth and for evermore!

³ From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, let Jehovah's name be praised.

⁴ Jehovah is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

⁵ Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high;

⁶ Who humbleth himself to look on the heavens and on the earth?

⁷ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,

⁸ To set [him] among nobles, among the nobles of his people.

⁹ He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [as] a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!

23 Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.

² Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert [judgment].

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

⁴ —If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt certainly bring it back to him.

⁵ If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, beware of leaving [it] to him: thou shalt certainly loosen [it] with him.

⁶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

⁷ Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked.

⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth those whose eyes are open, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

⁹ And the stranger thou shalt not oppress; for ye know the spirit of the stranger, for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

3 What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

² Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

³ For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

⁴ Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.

⁶ Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?

⁸ and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.