Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.

6 ¶ Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.

² After two days he shall give us life: in the third day he will resurrect us, and we shall live in his sight.

³ And we shall know and follow on in knowing the LORD; his going forth is prepared as the dawn; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

⁴ ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? Your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.

⁵ Therefore I have hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: that thy righteousness be as the light that goes forth.

⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

⁷ ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee; I am God, even thy God.

⁸ I will not reprove thee regarding thy sacrifices; thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

⁹ I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

¹¹ I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are with me.

¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine and the fullness thereof.

¹³ Must I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Sacrifice praise unto God and pay thy vows unto the most High

¹⁵ and call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹³ For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if those who are of the law are the heirs, faith is in vain, and the promise annulled,

¹⁵ because the law works wrath; for where there is no law, there is no rebellion either.

¹⁶ Therefore by faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

¹⁷ ¶ as it is written, As a father of many Gentiles have I placed thee before God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as those that are.

¹⁸ Who believed to wait against all hope, that he might become the father of many Gentiles, according to that which had been spoken unto him, So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹ And he did not weaken in faith: he considered not his own body now dead when he was about one hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb;

²⁰ he doubted not the promise of God, with unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

²¹ being fully persuaded that he was also powerful to do all that he had promised;

²² therefore, his faith was also attributed unto him as righteousness.

²³ ¶ Now it is not written for his sake alone that it was so reckoned to him,

²⁴ but for us also to whom it shall be so reckoned, that is, to those that believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

²⁵ who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.

⁹ ¶ And as Jesus passed forth from there, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom; and he said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

¹⁰ And it came to pass, as he sat at food in his house, behold, many publicans and sinners that had come sat down at the table with Jesus and his disciples.

¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why does your Master eat with publicans and sinners?

¹² But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, Those that are whole need not a physician, but those that are sick.

¹³ Therefore go ye and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.

¹⁸ ¶ While he spoke these things unto them, behold, a certain ruler came and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

¹⁹ And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples.

²⁰ And, behold, a woman who was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years came behind him and touched the hem of his garment;

²¹ for she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be free.

²² But Jesus turned around, and when he saw her, he said, Trust, daughter; thy faith has made thee free. And the woman was free from that hour.

²³ And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,

²⁴ he said unto them, Give place, for the maid is not dead, but sleeps. And they laughed him to scorn.

²⁵ But when the people were put forth, he went in and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.

²⁶ And the fame of this went abroad into all that land.