Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

⁹ Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁴ Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all that are bowed down.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in its season.

¹⁶ Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

¹⁷ Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

¹⁸ Jehovah is nigh unto all that call upon him, unto all that call upon him in truth.

¹⁹ He fulfilleth the desire of them that fear him; he heareth their cry, and saveth them.

²⁰ Jehovah keepeth all that love him, and all the wicked will he destroy.

²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

10 The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

³ Jehovah suffereth not the soul of the righteous [man] to famish; but he repelleth the craving of the wicked.

⁴ He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

⁵ He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

¹⁰ But I rejoiced in [the] Lord greatly, that now however at length ye have revived your thinking of me, though surely ye did also think [of me], but lacked opportunity.

¹¹ Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me *I* have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

¹² I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.

¹³ I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.

¹⁴ But ye have done well in taking part in my affliction.

¹⁵ And know also *ye*, O Philippians, that in [the] beginning of the gospel, when I came out of Macedonia, no assembly communicated [anything] to me in [the] way of giving and receiving save *ye* alone;