Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even ^[a]prepare war against him: ⁶ Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them. ⁷ And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. ⁸ But as for me, I am full of power ^[b]by the Spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity. ¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. ¹² Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Prayer for deliverance.

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the ^[a]gospel of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: ¹¹ as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying, ¹² to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who ^[b]calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³ And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us ^[c]the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

23 Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, ² saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat: ³ all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not. ⁴ Yea, they bind heavy burdens ^[a]and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. ⁵ But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, ⁶ and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi. ⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren. ⁹ And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, ^[b]even he who is in heaven. ¹⁰ Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the Christ. ¹¹ But he that is ^[c]greatest among you shall be your ^[d]servant. ¹² And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.