Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹¹ Teach me Your way, O LORD, and I will walk in Your truth. Knit my heart to You, so that I may fear Your Name.

¹² I will praise You, O LORD my God, with all my heart. Indeed, I will glorify Your Name forever.

¹³ For great is Your mercy toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the lowest grave.

¹⁴ O God, the proud have risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought my soul and have not set You before them.

¹⁵ But You, O LORD, are a pitying God, and merciful, slow to anger and great in kindness and truth.

¹⁶ Turn to me and have mercy upon me. Give Your strength to Your servant and save the son of Your handmaid.

¹⁷ Show a sign of goodness toward me, so that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed; because You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me. A Psalm, or song, committed to the sons of Korah

¹⁸ They have not known or understood. For God has shut their eyes so that they cannot see, their heart so that they cannot understand.

¹⁹ And no one considers in his heart, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burnt half of it in the fire and have also baked bread upon its coals. I have roasted its flesh and eaten it. And shall I make its remains an abomination? Shall I bow to the stock of a tree?”

²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A seduced heart has deceived him, so that he cannot deliver his soul or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing; but inwardly, they are ravening wolves.

¹⁶ “You shall know them by their fruits. Does man gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

¹⁷ “So every good tree brings forth good fruit, and a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.

¹⁸ “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, nor can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

¹⁹ “Every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

²⁰ “Therefore, you shall know them by their fruits.