Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² ¶ Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

¹³ For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; he has blessed thy sons within thee.

¹⁴ He who makes peace to be thy borders shall fill thee with the finest of the wheat.

¹⁵ He sends forth his word upon earth; his word runs very swiftly.

¹⁶ He who gives snow like wool scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.

¹⁷ He casts forth his ice like morsels; who can stand before his cold?

¹⁸ He shall send forth his word and melt them; his wind shall blow, and the waters shall flow.

¹⁹ He declares his words unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

²⁰ He has not dealt so with the other nations, which have not known his judgments. Halelu-JAH.

1 ¶ The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;

² to know wisdom and chastening; to understand prudent words;

³ to receive the chastening of prudence, justice, judgment, and equity;

⁴ to give prudence to the simple, and to the young men knowledge and council.

⁵ If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:

⁶ To understand a parable and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their enigmas.

⁷ ¶ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.

¹³ ¶ Who is wise and ready among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not that which descends from above, but is earthly, natural, diabolical.

¹⁶ For where there is envy and contention, there is confusion and every perverse work.

¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, modest, benevolent, full of mercy and of good fruits, not judgmental, unfeigned.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace unto those that make peace.