Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. On a stringed instrument. [A Psalm] of David.

61 Hear, O God, my cry; attend unto my prayer.

² From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is too high for me.

³ For thou hast been a refuge for me, a strong tower from before the enemy.

⁴ I will sojourn in thy tent for ever; I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

⁵ For thou, O God, hast heard my vows; thou hast given [me] the inheritance of those that fear thy name.

⁶ Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years shall be as many generations.

⁷ He shall abide before God for ever: bestow loving-kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

⁸ So will I sing forth thy name for ever, performing my vows from day to day.

¹⁹ And he said to him, Go in peace. And he departed from him a little way.

²⁰ And Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; but as Jehovah liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat of him.

²¹ And Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he sprang down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

²² And he said, All is well. My master has sent me saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.

²³ And Naaman said, Consent to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his young men; and they bore them before him.

²⁴ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.

²⁵ And he entered in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, Whence [comest thou], Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.

²⁶ And he said to him, Did not my heart go, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and bondmen, and bondwomen?

²⁷ But the leprosy of Naaman shall fasten upon thee, and upon thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence leprous, as snow.

¹⁰ For the rest, brethren, be strong in [the] Lord, and in the might of his strength.

¹¹ Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:

¹² because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.

¹³ For this reason take [to you] the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

¹⁵ and shod your feet with [the] preparation of the glad tidings of peace:

¹⁶ besides all [these], having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one.

¹⁷ Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;

¹⁸ praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in [the] Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

¹⁹ and for me in order that utterance may be given to me in [the] opening of my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the glad tidings,

²⁰ for which I am an ambassador [bound] with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak.