Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁸ And ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

¹⁹ And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

²⁰ and write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates;

²¹ that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens [which are] above the earth.

²⁶ See, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

²⁷ a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day;

²⁸ and a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

31 In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

² Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be a strong rock to me, a house of defence to save me.

³ For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.

⁴ Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength.

⁵ Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, [thou] God of truth.

¹⁹ [Oh] how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!

²⁰ Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city.

²² As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

²³ Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer.

²⁴ Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

¹⁷ for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.

²² righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

²³ for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which [is] in Christ Jesus;

²⁵ whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of [the] faith of Jesus.

²⁷ Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

²⁸ for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

²⁹ Is [God] the God of Jews only? is he not of [the] nations also? Yea, of nations also:

³⁰ since indeed [it is] one God who shall justify [the] circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.

³¹ Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.

²¹ Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

²² Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied through *thy* name, and through *thy* name cast out demons, and through *thy* name done many works of power?

²³ and then will I avow unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness.

²⁴ Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;

²⁵ and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.

²⁶ And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;

²⁷ and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.

²⁸ And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his doctrine,

²⁹ for he taught them as having authority, and not as their scribes.