Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

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.

¹⁸ Who is a God like unto thee, that forgiveth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in loving-kindness.

¹⁹ He will yet again have compassion on us, he will tread under foot our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

²⁰ Thou wilt perform truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old.

²¹ But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

²² righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

²³ for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which [is] in Christ Jesus;

²⁵ whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of [the] faith of Jesus.

²⁷ Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

²⁸ for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

²⁹ Is [God] the God of Jews only? is he not of [the] nations also? Yea, of nations also:

³⁰ since indeed [it is] one God who shall justify [the] circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.

³¹ Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.