Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
32 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I kept silent, my bones waxed old through my groaning all the day long.
4 For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; the sap of my soul was turned into the drought of summer. Selah
5 I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, “I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord,” and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah
6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found; surely the floods of great waters shall not come nigh unto him.
7 Thou art my hiding place; Thou shalt preserve me from trouble; Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah
21 “Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in thine heart.
23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up; thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy gold, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto Him, and He shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, ‘There is lifting up!’ And He shall save the humble person.
30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.”
23 Then Job answered and said:
2 “Even today is my complaint bitter; my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!
4 I would place my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say unto me.
6 Will He plead against me with His great power? No, but He would put strength in me.
7 There the righteous might dispute with Him; so should I be delivered for ever from my Judge.
8 “Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
9 on the left hand where He doth work, but I cannot behold Him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him.
10 But He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot hath held His steps; His way have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
13 But He is of one mind, and who can turn Him? And what His soul desireth, even that He doeth.
14 For He performeth the thing that is appointed for me; and many such things are with Him.
15 Therefore am I troubled at His presence; when I consider, I am afraid of Him.
16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;
17 because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath He covered the darkness from my face.
1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as
3 His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.
4 Thereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And besides this, using all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,
6 and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness,
7 and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Therefore brethren, give diligence all the more to make your calling and election sure, for if ye do these things ye shall never fall.
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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