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Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
Duration: 1245 days
Darby Translation (DARBY)
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Job 14:1-14

14 Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.

Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!

If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,

Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

For there is hope for a tree: if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;

Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground,

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant.

10 But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?

11 The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:

12 So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.

13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me,—

14 (If a man die, shall he live [again]?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:

Lamentations 3:1-9

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.

My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.

He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.

He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 3:19-24

19 Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

21 —This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.

22 It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;

23 they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Psalm 31:1-4

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.

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

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

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

Psalm 31:15-16

15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.

16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.

1 Peter 4:1-8

Christ, then, having suffered for us in [the] flesh, do *ye* also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has suffered in [the] flesh has done with sin,

no longer to live the rest of [his] time in [the] flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

For the time past [is] sufficient [for us] to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously [of you];

who shall render account to him who is ready to judge [the] living and [the] dead.

For to this [end] were the glad tidings preached to [the] dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after [the] flesh, but live, as regards God, after [the] Spirit.

But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;

Matthew 27:57-66

57 Now when even was come there came a rich man of Arimathaea, his name Joseph, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus.

58 *He*, going to Pilate, begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

59 And Joseph having got the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

60 and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn in the rock; and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, went away.

61 But Mary of Magdala was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the sepulchre.

62 Now on the morrow, which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

63 saying, Sir, we have called to mind that that deceiver said when he was still alive, After three days I arise.

64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.

65 And Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, secure it as well as ye know how.

66 And they went and secured the sepulchre, having sealed the stone, with the watch [besides].

John 19:38-42

38 And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, demanded of Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus: and Pilate allowed it. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.

39 And Nicodemus also, who at first came to Jesus by night, came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds [weight].

40 They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in linen with the spices, as it is the custom with the Jews to prepare for burial.

41 But there was in the place where he had been crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.

42 There therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.