Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
9 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,
for those who fear him have no lack!
10 (A)The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who (B)seek the Lord lack no good thing.
11 (C)Come, O children, listen to me;
(D)I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 (E)What man is there who desires life
and loves many days, that he may (F)see good?
13 (G)Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from (H)speaking deceit.
14 (I)Turn away from evil and do good;
seek peace and (J)pursue it.
Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God
13 “Behold, my eye has seen all this,
my ear has heard and understood it.
2 (A)What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.
3 (B)But I would speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to (C)argue my case with God.
4 As for you, (D)you whitewash with lies;
(E)worthless physicians are you all.
5 Oh that you would (F)keep silent,
and it would be your wisdom!
6 Hear now my argument
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will you (G)speak falsely for God
and speak (H)deceitfully for him?
8 Will you show partiality towards him?
Will you (I)plead the case for God?
9 Will it be well with you when he (J)searches you out?
Or (K)can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
10 He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.
11 Will not his (L)majesty terrify you,
and the dread of him fall upon you?
12 Your maxims are proverbs of (M)ashes;
your defences are defences of clay.
13 “Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
and (N)put my life in my hand?
15 (O)Though he slay me, I will (P)hope in him;[a]
yet I will (Q)argue my ways to his face.
16 This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him.
17 (R)Keep listening to my words,
and let my declaration be in your ears.
18 Behold, I have (S)prepared my case;
I know that I shall be in the right.
19 (T)Who is there who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, (A)“Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” ((B)For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him, and he would have given you (C)living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 (D)Are you greater than our father Jacob? (E)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but (F)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him (G)will never be thirsty again.[a] The water that I will give him will become (H)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, (I)give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, (J)call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that (K)you are (L)a prophet. 20 (M)Our fathers worshipped on (N)this mountain, but you say that (O)in Jerusalem is (P)the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, (Q)“Woman, believe me, (R)the hour is coming when (S)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 (T)You worship what you do not know; (U)we worship what we know, for (V)salvation is (W)from the Jews. 23 But (X)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father (Y)in spirit and (Z)truth, for the Father (AA)is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that (AB)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, (AC)he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, (AD)“I who speak to you am he.”
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