Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

We Are Appealing To You Too!

6 And working-with Him, we also are appealing that you not receive the grace of God in vain. ² For He says [in Isa 49:8], “I heard you at the acceptable time. And I helped you on the day of salvation”. Behold, now is the very-acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

... In The Process Giving Them No Opportunity For Stumbling...

³ ... in^[a] nothing giving any opportunity-for-stumbling, in order that the ministry may not be faulted,

... But Commending Ourselves While Enduring The Bad And Persevering In The Good

⁴ ... but in everything, as God’s servants, commending ourselves in great endurance— in afflictions, in constraints, in distresses, ⁵ in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in labors, in watchings^[b], in fastings; ⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in a holy^[c] spirit, in sincere love, ⁷ in the word^[d] of truth, in the power of God; through^[e] the weapons of ^[f] righteousness for the right hand and^[g] the left; ⁸ through^[h] glory and dishonor, through evil-report^[i] and good-report; as deceivers and true ones, ⁹ as being not-known and being fully-known; as dying and behold we live, as being disciplined and not being put-to-death, ¹⁰ as being grieved but always rejoicing; as poor but enriching many, as having nothing and holding-on-to all things.

Open Your Hearts To Us, Corinthians

¹¹ Our mouth has opened to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened-wide. ¹² You are not restrained^[j] in us, but you are restrained in your own deep-feelings. ¹³ Now as^[k] the same return^[l]— I speak as to my children— you also open-wide.

Jesus Calms The Wind And Sea. The Disciples Say, Who Is This Man?

³⁵ And on that day, having become evening, He says to them, “Let us go to the other side”. ³⁶ And having left the crowd, they take Him along as He was^[a], in the boat. And other boats were with Him. ³⁷ And a great storm of wind takes place. And the waves were throwing-over into the boat so that the boat was already being filled. ³⁸ And He was in the stern on the cushion, sleeping. And they wake Him and say to Him, “Teacher, do You not care^[b] that we are perishing?” ³⁹ And having awakened, He rebuked the wind, and said to the sea “Be still, be silenced^[c]”. And the wind stopped. And there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ And He said to them, “Why are you afraid^[d]? Do you not yet have faith?” ⁴¹ And they feared a great fear^[e]. And they were saying to one another, “Who then is this One, that^[f] even^[g] the wind and the sea obey Him?”