Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

6 In the year of the death of King Uzziah, I also saw the LORD sitting upon a high throne and lifted up. And the lower parts of it filled the Temple.

² The seraphims stood upon it. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. And with two he covered his feet. And with two he flew.

³ And one cried to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts! The whole Earth is full of His Glory!”

⁴ And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him who cried. And the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of polluted lips! And I dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips! For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of Hosts.”

⁶ Then one of the seraphims flew to me with a hot coal in his hand, which he had taken from the Altar with the Tongs:

⁷ And he touched my mouth, and said, “Lo, this has touched your lips, and your iniquity shall be taken away. And your sin shall be purged.”

⁸ Also, I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, “Whom shall I send? And who shall go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me.”

⁹ And He said, “Go, and say to this people, ‘You shall indeed hear, but you shall not understand. You shall plainly see, and not perceive.’

¹⁰ “Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and convert and be healed.”

¹¹ Then I said, “LORD, how long?” And He answered, “Until the cities are laid waste, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,

¹² “And the LORD has removed men far away. And there is a great desolation in the midst of the land.

¹³ “But yet, in it shall be a tenth, and shall return and shall be eaten up as an elm or an oak, which has a substance in them even when they are made stumps. The Holy Seed shall be its substance.”

138 I will praise You with my whole heart; before the gods I will praise You.

² I will worship toward Your Holy Temple, and praise Your Name, because of Your lovingkindness and for Your Truth; for You have magnified Your Name by Your Word above all things.

³ When I called, then You heard me and increased strength in my soul.

⁴ All the kings of the Earth shall praise You, O LORD; for they have heard the words of Your mouth.

⁵ And they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, because the Glory of the LORD is great.

⁶ For the LORD is high, yet He beholds the lowly; but He knows the proud afar off.

⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me. You will stretch forth Your hand upon the wrath of my enemies; and Your right hand shall save me.

⁸ The LORD will perform toward me. O LORD, Your mercy endures forever! Do not forsake the works of Your hands. To him who excels: A Psalm of David

15 Moreover brothers, I declare to you the Gospel which I preached to you, which you have also received, and wherein you continue,

² And whereby you are saved, if you keep in memory the Word which I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.

³ For first of all, I delivered to you that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

⁴ And that He was buried, and that He arose the third day, according to the Scriptures.

⁵ And that He was seen by Cephas, then by the Twelve.

⁶ After that, He was seen by more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom many remain to this time, and some also are asleep.

⁷ After that, He was seen by James, then by all the Apostles.

⁸ And last of all he was seen also by me, as by one born at the wrong time.

⁹ For I am the least of the Apostles, who is not fit to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am that I am. And His grace which is in me, was not in vain. But I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

¹¹ Therefore, whether it was me or them, so we preach and so have you believed.

5 Then it happened that as the people pressed upon Him to hear the Word of God, He stood by the lake of Gennesaret

² and saw two ships stand by the lakeside. But the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.

³ And He entered into one of the ships (which was Simon’s) and asked him to thrust off a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the ship.

⁴ Now when He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep. And let down your nets to make a catch.”

⁵ Then Simon answered, and said to Him, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at Your Word I will let down the net.”

⁶ And when they had done so, they enclosed a great multitude of fish, so that their net broke.

⁷ And they beckoned to their partners in the other ship to come and help them. Then they came and filled both the ships, so that they sank.

⁸ Now when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Lord, go from me. For I am a sinful man.”

⁹ For he was utterly astonished (and all who were with him) at the catch of fish which they took.

¹⁰ And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were companions of Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not fear. From now on you shall catch men.”

¹¹ And when they had brought the ships to land, they left all and followed Him.