Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord: for I am in trouble: mine [a]eye, my soul and my belly are consumed with grief.
10 For my life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning: my strength faileth for my pain, and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a [b]reproach among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbors: and a fear to mine acquaintance, [c]who seeing me in the street, fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the railing of [d]great men: fear was on every side, while they conspired together against me, and consulted to take my life.
14 But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, [e]Thou art my God.
15 My [f]times are in thine hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and save me through thy mercy.
13 Hold your tongues in my presence, that I may speak, and let come upon what will.
14 Wherefore do I [a]take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hand?
15 Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprove my ways in his sight.
16 He shall be my salvation also: for the [b]hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my words, and mark my talk.
18 Behold now: if I prepare me to judgment, I know that I shall be [c]justified.
19 Who is he that will plead [d]with me? for if I now hold my tongue, I [e]die.
21 For Christ is to me both in life and in death advantage.
22 [a]And whether to live in the [b]flesh were profitable for me, and what to choose I know not.
23 For I am distressed between both, desiring to be loosed and to be with Christ, which is best of all.
24 Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh, is more needful for you.
25 And this am I sure of, that I shall abide, and with you all continue, for your furtherance and joy of your faith,
26 That ye may more abundantly rejoice in JESUS CHRIST for me, by my coming to you again.
27 [c]Only let your conversation be as it becometh the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your matters, that ye [d]continue in one spirit, and in one mind, fighting together through the faith of the Gospel.
28 [e]And in nothing fear your adversaries, which is to them a token of perdition, and to you of salvation, and that of God.
29 [f]For unto you it is given for Christ, that not only ye should believe in him, but also suffer for his sake,
30 [g]Having the same fight, which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
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