Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

12 For the LORD had said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.

² “And I will make a great nation from you, and will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.

³ “I will also bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and in you shall all families of the Earth be blessed.”

⁴ So, Abram departed, just as the LORD instructed him; and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

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

4 What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our Father, has found according to the flesh?

² For if Abraham were justified by works, he has grounds to boast. But not with God.

³ For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

⁴ Now, to one who works, the wages are not counted by grace, but by debt.

⁵ But to one who does not work, but believes in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness;

¹³ For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if those who are of the Law are heirs, then faith is made void, and the promise is made to no effect.

¹⁵ For the Law causes wrath. For where there is no Law, there is no transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore, it is by faith, so that it might come by grace (and the promise might be a surety) to all the seed; not only to that which is of the Law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the Father of us all,

¹⁷ (as it is written: “I have made you a Father of many nations.”) before God, Whom he believed, Who quickens the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were;

3 There was now a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus - a ruler of the Jews.

² This man came to Jesus by night, and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher from God; for no one could do these miracles that You do, except God were with Him.”

³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

⁴ Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born who is old? Can he enter into his mother’s womb again, and be born?”

⁵ Jesus answered, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

⁶ “That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.

⁷ “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

⁸ “The wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell from where it comes, and where it goes. So is every man who is born of the Spirit.”

⁹ Nicodemus answered, and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

¹⁰ Jesus answered, and said to him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and know not these things?

¹¹ “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak that we know, and testify that we have seen. But you do not receive our witness.

¹² “If when I tell you earthly things you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you of Heavenly things?

¹³ “For no one ascends up to Heaven, except He who descended from Heaven – the Son of Man, who is in Heaven.

¹⁴ “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up;

¹⁵ “that whoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁶ “For God so loves the world, that He has given His only begotten Son; that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

¹⁷ “For God did not send his Son into the world that He should condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved.

17 And after six days, Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain, alone.

² And He was transfigured before them. And His face shined as the Sun. And His clothes were as white as the light.

³ And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with Him.

⁴ Then Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. If You would, let us make three booths here; one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

⁵ “While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased. Hear Him.”

⁶ And when the disciples heard that, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid.

⁷ Then Jesus came and touched them, and said, “Arise. And do not be afraid.”

⁸ And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus only.

⁹ And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, “Tell no one of this vision until the Son of Man has risen again from the dead.”