Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,

⁵ saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances for deceit:

⁶ that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.

⁷ Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will never forget any of their works.

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!

2 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men;

² for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

³ for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,

⁴ who desires that all men should be saved and come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth.

⁵ For God is one, and [the] mediator of God and men one, [the] man Christ Jesus,

⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony [to be rendered] in its own times;

⁷ to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak [the] truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of [the] nations in faith and truth.

16 And he said also to [his] disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.

² And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.

³ And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

⁴ I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.

⁵ And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

⁶ And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.

⁷ Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.

⁸ And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

⁹ And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.

¹⁰ He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.

¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

¹² and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?

¹³ No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.