Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Of David. Instruction.

32 Blessed is he [whose] transgression is forgiven, [whose] sin is covered!

² Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah reckoneth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile!

³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

⁶ For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.

⁷ Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

⁹ The way of a wicked [man] is an abomination to Jehovah; but him that pursueth righteousness he loveth.

¹⁰ Grievous correction is for him that forsaketh the path; he that hateth reproof shall die.

¹¹ Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah; how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

²⁴ The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

²⁵ Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.

²⁶ The thoughts of the evil [man] are an abomination to Jehovah; but pure words are pleasant.

²⁷ He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

²⁸ The heart of a righteous [man] studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

²⁹ Jehovah is far from the wicked; but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

³⁰ That which enlighteneth the eyes rejoiceth the heart; good tidings make the bones fat.

³¹ The ear that heareth the reproof of life shall abide among the wise.

³² He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul; but he that heareth reproof getteth sense.

³³ The fear of Jehovah is the discipline of wisdom, and before honour [goeth] humility.

1 Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, and the brother Timotheus, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia.

² Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions, and God of all encouragement;

⁴ who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

⁵ Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.

⁶ But whether we are in tribulation, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the same sufferings which *we* also suffer,

⁷ (and our hope for you [is] sure;) or whether we are encouraged, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened [to us] in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond [our] power, so as to despair even of living.

⁹ But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

¹⁰ who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;

¹¹ ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.