Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

12 ¶ And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who is for the sons of thy people, and it shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there were people until now, but in that time thy people shall escape, all those that are found written in the book.

² And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall be awakened, some for eternal life, and some for shame and everlasting confusion.

³ And those that understand shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those that teach righteousness to the multitude as the stars in perpetual eternity.

Michtam of David.

¹ ¶ Preserve me, O God: for in thee I have put my trust.

² I said unto the LORD, Thou art my goodness: I have no goodness apart from thee;

³ to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent: all my delight is towards them.

⁴ The sorrows of those that hasten after another god shall be multiplied; their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

⁵ The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; thou dost maintain my lot.

⁶ The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a beautiful inheritance.

⁷ I will bless the LORD, who gives me counsel: my kidneys also instruct me in the night seasons.

⁸ ¶ I have set the LORD always before me: because when he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest secure.

¹⁰ For thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol; neither wilt thou suffer thy Merciful One to see corruption.

¹¹ Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; in thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

¹¹ And so every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

¹² but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, is seated at the right hand of God,

¹³ waiting for that which follows, that is, until his enemies are made his footstool.

¹⁴ For by one offering he has perfected for ever those that are sanctified.

¹⁵ Likewise the Holy Spirit gives us the same witness, who afterwards said,

¹⁶ This is the testament that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will give my laws in their hearts, and in their souls will I write them;

¹⁷ and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

¹⁸ Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

¹⁹ ¶ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

²⁰ by a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

²¹ and having that great priest over the house of God,

²² let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts purified from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water;

²³ let us hold fast the profession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that promised).

²⁴ And let us consider one another to provoke unto charity and unto good works,

²⁵ not forsaking our gathering together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much the more, when ye see that day approaching.

13 ¶ And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!

² And Jesus, answering, said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.

³ And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

⁴ Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all things are to be finished?

⁵ ¶ And Jesus, answering them, began to say, Take heed that no one deceive you,

⁶ for many shall come in my name, saying, I Am Christ, and shall deceive many.

⁷ And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled, for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

⁸ For people shall rise against people and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in each place, and there shall be famines and troubles: these shall be the beginnings of sorrows.