Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁵ I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

6 Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

² After two days will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before his face;

³ and we shall know,—we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.

⁴ What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.

⁵ Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and my judgment goeth forth as the light.

⁶ For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

⁷ Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.

⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

⁹ I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:

¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;

¹¹ I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

¹³ Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹³ For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

¹⁵ For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

¹⁷ (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

¹⁸ who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

¹⁹ and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

²⁰ and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹ and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

²² wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

²³ Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

²⁴ but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,

²⁵ who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

⁹ And Jesus, passing on thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, called Matthew, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.

¹⁰ And it came to pass, as he lay at table in the house, that behold, many tax-gatherers and sinners came and lay at table with Jesus and his disciples.

¹¹ And the Pharisees seeing [it], said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?

¹² But [Jesus] hearing it, said, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

¹³ But go and learn what [that] is—I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous [men] but sinners.

¹⁸ As he spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler coming in did homage to him, saying, My daughter has by this died; but come and lay thy hand upon her and she shall live.

¹⁹ And Jesus rose up and followed him, and [so did] his disciples.

²⁰ And behold, a woman, who had had a bloody flux [for] twelve years, came behind and touched the hem of his garment;

²¹ for she said within herself, If I should only touch his garment I shall be healed.

²² But Jesus turning and seeing her, said, Be of good courage, daughter; thy faith has healed thee. And the woman was healed from that hour.

²³ And when Jesus was come to the house of the ruler, and saw the flute-players and the crowd making a tumult,

²⁴ he said, Withdraw, for the damsel is not dead, but sleeps. And they derided him.

²⁵ But when the crowd had been put out, he went in and took her hand; and the damsel rose up.

²⁶ And the fame of it went out into all that land.