Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ “Hear this, O you who swallow up the poor and may make the needy of the land fail,

⁵ saying, ‘When will the new month be gone, that we may sell corn; and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat and make the ephah small and the shekel great and falsify the weights by deceit?

⁶ ‘That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat.’”

⁷ The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, “Surely, I will never forget any of their works.

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!

2 Therefore, I encourage most of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all mankind;

² for kings, and for all who are in authority. So that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty.

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

⁴ Who desires that all mankind should be saved and come to the acknowledgment of the Truth.

⁵ For there is one God - and one Mediator between God and man - Who is the man, Christ Jesus.

⁶ He gave Himself - a ransom for all - to be that testimony in due time.

⁷ To this I am ordained a preacher and an Apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, and do not lie), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

16 And He also said to His disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And he was accused to him of wasting his goods.

² “And he called him and said to him, ‘How is it that I hear this of you? Give an account of your stewardship. For you may no longer be steward.’

³ “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking away the stewardship from me. I cannot dig. And I am ashamed to beg.

⁴ ‘I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses.’

⁵ “Then he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my master?’

⁶ “And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill. And sit down quickly. And write fifty.’

⁷ “Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ Then he said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’

⁸ “And the master commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely. For among their own kind, the children of this world are wiser than the children of light.

⁹ “And I say to you, make friends with the riches of iniquity, so that when you fail, they may receive you into eternal dwellings.

¹⁰ “The one who is faithful in the least, is also faithful in much. And the one who is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much.

¹¹ “If, then, you have not been faithful in the riches of iniquity, who will trust you in the true treasure?

¹² “And if you have not been faithful in another man’s goods, who shall give you that which is yours?

¹³ “No servant can serve two masters. For either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.”