Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁸ “Do not remember the former things or regard the things of old.

¹⁹ “Behold, I do a new thing. It shall come forth now. Will you not know it? I will even make a way in the desert, rivers in the wilderness.

²⁰ “The wild beasts shall honor Me, the dragons and the ostriches, because I gave water in the desert and rivers in the wilderness, to give drink to My people, even to My Elect.

²¹ “I have formed this people for Myself. They shall show forth My praise.

²² “And you have not called upon Me, O Jacob. But you have wearied Me, O Israel.

²³ “You have not brought Me the sheep of your Burnt Offerings. Nor have you honored Me with your Sacrifices. I have not made you serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.

²⁴ “You brought Me no sweet savor with money. Nor have you made Me drunk with the fat of your Sacrifices. But you have made Me serve with your sins, wearied Me with your iniquities.

²⁵ “I, even I, am He Who puts away your iniquities for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.

41 Blessed is he who judges wisely of the poor. The LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble.

² The LORD will keep him and preserve him alive. He shall be blessed upon the Earth; and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

³ The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of sorrow. You have turned all his bed in his sickness.

⁴ I said, “LORD have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

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

⁶ And if he come to see me, he speaks lies; his heart heaps iniquity within him. When he comes forth, he tells it.

⁷ All those who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine my hurt against me, saying,

⁸ “A mischief lies upon him,” and, “He who lies shall rise no more.”

⁹ Indeed, my familiar friend whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up the heel against me.

¹⁰ Therefore, O LORD, have mercy upon me and raise me up. So shall I reward them.

¹¹ By this I know that You favor me: because my enemy does not triumph against me.

¹² And as for me, You uphold me in my integrity, and set me before Your face forever.

¹³ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, world without end! So be it. Even so be it! To him who excels: A Psalm to give instruction, committed to the sons of Korah.

¹⁸ But God is faithful. So that our word toward you was not “Yes”, and “No”.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Who was preached among you by us - by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy - was not “Yes” and “No”. But in Him was “Yes”.

²⁰ For all the promises of God in Him are “Yes”, and in Him “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

²¹ And it is God Who established us with you in Christ and has anointed us.

²² Who has also sealed us and has given the earnest portion of the Spirit in our hearts.

2 After a few days, He entered into Capernaum again. And word spread that He was in the house.

² And many gathered together, so much so that the places outside the door could not receive any more. And He preached the Word to them.

³ And four men came to Him carrying a paralytic.

⁴ And since they could not come near to Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof of the house where He was. And when they had broken it open, they let down the bed in which the sick man lay.

⁵ Now when Jesus saw their faith, He said to the sick man, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

⁶ And some of the scribes were sitting there, reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ “Why does this man speak such blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God only?”

⁸ And immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that thus they reasoned with themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

⁹ “Is it easier to say to the paralyzed, ‘Your sins are forgiven’, or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed, and walk?’

¹⁰ “But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on Earth to forgive sins…” He said to the sick man,

¹¹ “Arise. Take up your bed and go to your own house.”

¹² And he rose immediately, and took up his bed, and went forth before them all. And they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, “We never saw such a thing!”