Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 16
Confidence in the Lord
A Davidic Miktam.(A)
1 Protect me, God, for I take refuge in You.(B)
2 I[a] said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord;
I have nothing good besides You.”[b](C)
3 As for the holy people who are in the land,(D)
they are the noble ones.
All my delight is in them.
4 The sorrows of those who take another god
for themselves will multiply;
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
and I will not speak their names with my lips.(E)
5 Lord, You are my portion[c]
and my cup of blessing;
You hold my future.(F)
6 The boundary lines have fallen for me
in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.(G)
9 Y What makes the one you love better than another,
most beautiful of women?(A)
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
10 W My love is fit and strong,[a](B)
notable among ten thousand.(C)
11 His head is purest gold.
His hair is wavy[b](D)
and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves(E)
beside streams of water,
washed in milk
and set like jewels.[c]
13 His cheeks(F) are like beds of spice,
towers of[d] perfume.
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.(G)
14 His arms[e] are rods of gold
set[f] with topaz.[g](H)
His body[h] is an ivory panel
covered with sapphires.(I)
15 His legs are alabaster pillars
set on pedestals of pure gold.
His presence is like Lebanon,(J)
as majestic as the cedars.(K)
16 His mouth is sweetness.
He is absolutely desirable.(L)
This is my love, and this is my friend,
young women of Jerusalem.
6 Y Where has your love gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way has he[i] turned?
We will seek him with you.
Resurrection Essential to the Gospel
15 Now brothers, I want to clarify[a] for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand(A) on it. 2 You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.[b](B) 3 For I passed on to you(C) as most important what I also received:
that Christ died(D) for our sins
according to the Scriptures,(E)
4 that He was buried,(F)
that He was raised on the third day(G)
according to the Scriptures,(H)
5 and that He appeared to Cephas,(I)
then to the Twelve.(J)
6 Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time;(K)
most of them are still alive,
but some have fallen asleep.
7 Then He appeared to James,(L)
then to all the apostles.(M)
8 Last of all, as to one abnormally born,[c](N)
He also appeared to me.(O)
9 For I am the least of the apostles,(P) unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted(Q) the church of God. 10 But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.(R) 11 Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.
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