Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²² And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok;

²³ and he took them and led them over the river, and led over what he had.

²⁴ And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.

²⁵ And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the joint of his thigh; and the joint of Jacob's thigh was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

²⁶ And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

²⁷ And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

²⁸ And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.

²⁹ And Jacob asked and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, How is it that thou askest after my name? And he blessed him there.

³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel—For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.

³¹ And as he passed over Peniel, the sun rose upon him; and he limped upon his hip.

A Song of degrees.

121 I lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: whence shall my help come?

² My help [cometh] from Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth.

³ He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, he that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ Jehovah is thy keeper, Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand;

⁶ The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

⁷ Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; he will keep thy soul.

⁸ Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth and for evermore.

¹⁴ But *thou*, abide in those things which thou hast learned, and [of which] thou hast been fully persuaded, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them];

¹⁵ and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which [is] in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ Every scripture [is] divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;

¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.

4 I testify before God and Christ Jesus, who is about to judge living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

² proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.

³ For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;

⁴ and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

⁵ But *thou*, be sober in all things, bear evils, do [the] work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry.

18 And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,

² saying, There was a judge in a city, not fearing God and not respecting man:

³ and there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adverse party.

⁴ And he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within himself, If even I fear not God and respect not man,

⁵ at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.

⁶ And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says.

⁷ And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

⁸ I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?