Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy.

⁹ The LORD is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works.

¹⁰ All Your works praise You, O LORD, and Your Saints bless You.

¹¹ They show the glory of Your Kingdom, and speak of Your power,

¹² to cause His power and the glorious renown of His Kingdom to be known to the sons of men.

¹³ Your Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all ages.

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are ready to fall.

⁶ ‘Ho, ho! Come forth and flee from the land of the North!’ says the LORD, ‘for I have scattered you to the four winds of the heaven,’ says the LORD.

⁷ ‘Save yourself, O Zion, who dwells with the daughter of Babel!’

⁸ “For thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘After this glory he has sent Me to the nations which plundered you. For he who touches you, touches the apple of His Eye.

⁹ ‘For behold, I will lift up My Hand upon them. And they shall be a spoil to those who served them. And you shall know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me.

¹⁰ ‘Rejoice and be glad, O daughter Zion! For lo, I come, and will dwell in the midst of you,’ says the LORD.

¹¹ “And many nations shall be joined to the LORD on that day and shall be My people. And I will dwell in the midst of you. And you shall know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.

¹² “And the LORD shall inherit Judah, His portion, in the Holy Land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

¹³ “Let all flesh be still before the LORD! For He is raised up out of His Holy Place!”

⁷ What shall we then say? Is the Law sin? Absolutely not! No, I did not know sin, except through the Law. For I had not known lust until the Law had said, “You shall not lust”.

⁸ But sin, taking opportunity through the Commandment, wrought in me all manner of lusts. For without the Law, sin is dead.

⁹ For I was once alive apart from the Law. But when the Commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

¹⁰ And this Commandment, which was life to me, was found to be death.

¹¹ For sin, taking opportunity through the Commandment, deceived me; and thereby killed me.

¹² Therefore, the Law is holy. And the Commandment is holy, and just, and good.

¹³ Was, then, that which is good made death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it might appear sin, wrought death in me by that which is good, so that sin (through the Commandment) might be excessively sinful.

¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under sin.

¹⁵ For I do not understand that which I do. For what I will to do, that do I not do. But what I hate, that I do.

¹⁶ If, then, I do that which I do not want to do, I consent to the Law, that it is good.

¹⁷ So, then, it is no more me who does it, but sin which dwells in me.

¹⁸ For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) no good thing dwells. For to will is present with me. But I find no means to perform that which is good.

¹⁹ For I do not do the good thing which I want to do. But the evil, which I do not want to do, that I do.

²⁰ Now, if I do that which I do not want, it is no more I who do it, but the sin which dwells in me.