Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

⁶ And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

⁷ Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.

⁸ For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?

¹⁰ I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

² But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

³ And he [is] as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

⁴ The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶ For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

¹² Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among [the] dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of [those that are] dead?

¹³ But if there is not a resurrection of [those that are] dead, neither is Christ raised:

¹⁴ but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also [is] our preaching, and vain also your faith.

¹⁵ And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed [those that are] dead are not raised.

¹⁶ For if [those that are] dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised;

¹⁷ but if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.

¹⁸ Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are [the] most miserable of all men.

²⁰ (But now Christ is raised from among [the] dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.

¹⁷ and having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

¹⁸ and those that were beset by unclean spirits were healed.

¹⁹ And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power went out from him and healed all.

²⁰ And *he*, lifting up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Blessed [are] ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

²¹ Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

²² Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from them], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake:

²³ rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.

²⁴ But woe to you rich, for ye have received your consolation.

²⁵ Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

²⁶ Woe, when all men speak well of you, for after this manner did their fathers to the false prophets.