Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²³ Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were printed in a book,

²⁴ that they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever!

²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth;

²⁶ and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God,

²⁷ whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me.

17 Hear the right, O Lord; attend unto my cry! Give ear unto my prayer, which goeth not out of feigned lips.

² Let my sentence come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold things with equity.

³ Thou hast tested mine heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the word of Thy lips I have been kept from the paths of the destroyer.

⁵ Uphold my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

⁶ I have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt hear me, O God; incline Thine ear unto me and hear my speaking.

⁷ Show Thy marvelous lovingkindness, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand them that put their trust in Thee from those that rise up against them.

⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me under the shadow of Thy wings,

⁹ from the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies who compass me about.

2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto Him,

² that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as if from us that the Day of Christ is at hand.

³ Let no man deceive you by any means, for that Day shall not come, unless there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

⁴ who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth as God in the temple of God, showing himself to be God.

⁵ Remember ye not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you for salvation, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

¹⁴ whereunto He called you by our Gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold to the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God even our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

¹⁷ comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

²⁷ Then came to Him certain of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked Him,

²⁸ saying, “Master, Moses wrote unto us that if any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.

²⁹ There were therefore seven brethren, and the first took a wife and died without children.

³⁰ And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.

³¹ And the third took her, and in like manner the seven also; and they left no children, and died.

³² Last of all the woman died also.

³³ Therefore, in the resurrection whose wife is she, for seven had her as wife?”

³⁴ And Jesus answering said unto them, “The children of this world marry and are given in marriage.

³⁵ But they that shall be accounted worthy to obtain that World and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage,

³⁶ neither can they die any more; for they are equal unto the angels and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

³⁷ Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush when he called the Lord ‘the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’

³⁸ For He is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto Him.”