Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁸ “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

²⁰ The beast of the field shall honor Me, the dragons and the owls, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.

²¹ This people have I formed for Myself; they shall show forth My praise.

²² “But thou hast not called upon Me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of Me, O Israel.

²³ Thou hast not brought Me the lambs or kids of thy burnt offerings, neither hast thou honored Me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

²⁴ Thou hast bought Me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled Me with the fat of thy sacrifices. But thou hast made Me to serve with thy sins; thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities.

²⁵ “I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

41 Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

² The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he shallbe blessed upon the earth; and Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

³ The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; Thou wilt turn him on his bed in his sickness.

⁴ I said, “Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee.”

⁵ Mine enemies speak evil of me and say, “When shall he die and his name perish?”

⁶ And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself, and when he goeth out, he telleth it.

⁷ All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.

⁸ “An evil disease,” they say, “cleaveth fast unto him, and now that he lieth down, he shall rise up no more.”

⁹ Yea, mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, that ate of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰ But Thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up that I may requite them.

¹¹ By this I know that Thou favorest me: because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

¹² And as for me, Thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before Thy face for ever.

¹³ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.

¹⁸ But as God is true, our word toward you was not “yea” and “nay.”

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “yea” and “nay,” but in Him was “yea.”

²⁰ For all the promises of God in Him are “yea”; and in Him “amen” unto the glory of God by us.

²¹ Now He who establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God,

²² who hath also put His seal upon us, and given us the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

2 And again He entered into Capernaum some days later, and it was reported that He was in the house.

² And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not even about the door; and He preached the Word unto them.

³ And they came unto Him, bringing one sick with the palsy, who was borne by four.

⁴ And when they could not come nigh unto Him because of the throng, they uncovered the roof where He was. And when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the one sick with the palsy lay.

⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, He said unto the one sick with the palsy, “Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.”

⁶ But there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ “Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?”

⁸ And immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, He said unto them, “Why reason ye these things in your hearts:

⁹ whether it is easier to say to the sick with the palsy, ‘Thy sins are forgiven thee,’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up thy bed and walk’?

¹⁰ But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins—” He said to the one sick with the palsy,

¹¹ “I say unto thee, arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.”

¹² And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all, insomuch that they all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw it in this fashion!”