Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

[A Psalm] of David.

37 Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of them that work unrighteousness;

² for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

³ Confide in Jehovah, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on faithfulness;

⁴ and delight thyself in Jehovah, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

⁵ Commit thy way unto Jehovah, and rely upon him: he will bring [it] to pass;

⁶ and he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

⁷ Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.

⁸ Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it [would be] only to do evil.

⁹ For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.

¹¹ But the meek shall possess the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of prosperity.

³⁹ But the salvation of the righteous is of Jehovah: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

⁴⁰ And Jehovah will help them and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them; for they trust in him.

¹⁶ And Joseph saw Benjamin with them, and said to the [man] who was over his house, Bring the men into the house, and slaughter cattle, and make ready; for the men shall eat with me at noon.

¹⁷ And the man did as Joseph had said; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.

¹⁸ And the men were afraid because they were brought into Joseph's house, and said, Because of the money that was returned to us in our sacks at the beginning are we brought in, that he may turn against us, and fall upon us and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

¹⁹ And they came up to the man that was over Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

²⁰ and said, Ah! my lord, we came indeed down at the first to buy food.

²¹ And it came to pass when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, [every] man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money according to its weight; and we have brought it again in our hand.

²² And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.

²³ And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; your money came to me. And he brought Simeon out to them.

²⁴ And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses food.

²⁵ And they made ready the gift for Joseph's coming at noon; for they had heard that they should eat bread there.

²⁶ When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift that was in their hand, into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.

²⁷ And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well—the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?

²⁸ And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed, and made obeisance.

²⁹ And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son!

³⁰ And Joseph made haste, for his bowels burned for his brother; and he sought [a place] to weep, and he went into the chamber, and wept there.

³¹ And he washed his face, and came out, and controlled himself, and said, Set on bread.

³² And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

³³ And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth; and the men marvelled one at another.

³⁴ And he had portions carried to them from before him. And Benjamin's portion was five times greater than the portions of them all. And they drank, and made merry with him.

8 [There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.

⁵ For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

⁶ For the mind of the flesh [is] death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

⁸ and they that are in flesh cannot please God.

⁹ But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not [the] Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him:

¹⁰ but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

¹¹ But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among [the] dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.