Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

121 I will lift up my eyes to the mountain, from where my help shall come.

² My help comes from the LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth.

³ He will not allow your foot to slip. He Who keeps you will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, He Who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ The LORD is your Keeper. The LORD is your shadow at your right hand.

⁶ The Sun shall not strike you by day, nor the Moon by night.

⁷ The LORD shall preserve you from all evil. He shall keep your soul.

⁸ The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in, from henceforth and forever. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of David

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, Who takes away iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage! He does not retain His wrath forever, because mercy pleases Him.

¹⁹ He will turn again and have compassion upon us. He will subdue our iniquities and cast all their sins into the bottom of the sea.

²⁰ You will perform truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as You have sworn to our fathers in days of old.

²¹ But now, the righteousness of God has been made manifest without the Law, having been witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;

²² that is, the righteousness of God by the faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all who believe. For there is no difference.

²³ For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God;

²⁴ and are justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

²⁵ Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation, (through faith in His blood) to declare His righteousness, by the forgiveness of previous sins through God’s forbearance;

²⁶ to show His righteousness at this present time, that He might be just, and a justifier of the one who believes in Jesus.

²⁷ Where, then, is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the Law of faith.

²⁸ Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith, apart from the works of the Law.

²⁹ Or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? Yes, even of the Gentiles also.

³⁰ For indeed it is one God Who shall justify circumcision of faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

³¹ Do we then make the Law of no effect through faith? Absolutely not! Rather, we establish the Law.