Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

3 LORD, how my adversaries are increased? How many rise against me?

² Many say to my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah.

³ But You, LORD, are a buckler for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

⁴ I called to the LORD with my voice, and He heard me out of His Holy Mountain. Selah.

⁵ I laid down and slept; and rose up again. For the LORD sustained me.

⁶ I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who should beset me all around.

⁷ O LORD, arise! Help me, my God! For You have struck all my enemies upon the cheekbone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

⁸ Salvation belongs to the LORD. And Your blessing is upon Your people. Selah. To him who excels on Neginoth: A Psalm of David.

⁵ “Yea, indeed the proud man is as he who transgresses by wine. Therefore, he shall not endure because he has enlarged his desire as Hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps all people for himself.

⁶ “Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his—How long? —and to him who loads himself with heavy debt!

⁷ “Shall not those who bite you rise up suddenly, and those who stir you awaken, and make you their prey?

⁸ “Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city, and to all who dwell therein.

⁹ “Woe to him who covets an evil gain for his House, so that he may set his nest on high to escape from the power of evil!

¹⁰ “You have consulted shame to your own House by destroying many people and have sinned against your own soul.

¹¹ “For the stone shall cry out of the wall. And out of the timber shall the beam answer it.

5 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves Him Who begat, also loves him who is begotten of Him.

² In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His Commandments.

³ For this is the love of God: that we keep His Commandments. And His Commandments are not burdensome.

⁴ For all that is born of God overcomes this world. And this is that victory that has overcome this world: our faith.

⁵ Who is it that overcomes this world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹³ These things I have written to you who believe in the Name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life (and that you may believe in the Name of the Son of God).

¹⁴ And this is that assurance that we have in Him: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

¹⁵ And if we know that He hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have the petitions that we have desired from Him.

¹⁶ If anyone sees his brother sin a sin that does not lead to death, let him ask, and He shall give him life for those whose sin does not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death. I do not say that you should pray for that.

¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin. But there is sin that does not lead to death.

¹⁸ We know that whoever is born of God does not sin. But the one who is begotten of God guards himself. And the wicked one does not touch him.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and this whole world lies in wickedness.

²⁰ But we know that the Son of God has come and has given us a mind to know Him Who is true. And we are in Him Who is true; in His Son Jesus Christ. The same is that very God and that Eternal Life.

²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.