Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁵ And Jehovah saith unto him, `Go turn back on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus, and thou hast gone in, and anointed Hazael for king over Aram,

¹⁶ and Jehu son of Nimshi thou dost anoint for king over Israel, and Elisha son of Shaphat, of Abel-Meholah, thou dost anoint for prophet in thy stead.

¹⁹ And he goeth thence, and findeth Elisha son of Shaphat, and he is plowing; twelve yoke [are] before him, and he [is] with the twelfth; and Elijah passeth over unto him, and casteth his robe upon him,

²⁰ and he forsaketh the oxen, and runneth after Elijah, and saith, `Let me give a kiss, I pray thee, to my father and to my mother, and I go after thee.' And he saith to him, `Go, turn back, for what have I done to thee?'

²¹ And he turneth back from after him, and taketh the yoke of oxen, and sacrificeth it, and with instruments of the oxen he hath boiled their flesh, and giveth to the people, and they eat, and he riseth, and goeth after Elijah, and serveth him.

16 A Secret Treasure of David. Preserve me, O God, for I did trust in Thee.

² Thou hast said to Jehovah, `My Lord Thou [art];' My good [is] not for thine own sake;

³ For the holy ones who [are] in the land, And the honourable, all my delight [is] in them.

⁴ Multiplied are their griefs, [Who] have hastened backward; I pour not out their libations of blood, Nor do I take up their names on my lips.

⁵ Jehovah [is] the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot.

⁶ Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance [is] for me.

⁷ I bless Jehovah who hath counselled me; Also [in] the nights my reins instruct me.

⁸ I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because -- at my right hand I am not moved.

⁹ Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently:

¹⁰ For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

¹¹ Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys [is] with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

5 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

¹³ For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

¹⁴ for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'

¹⁵ and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.

¹⁶ And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

¹⁷ for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

¹⁸ and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

²³ meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

²⁴ and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

²⁵ if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

⁵¹ And it came to pass, in the completing of the days of his being taken up, that he fixed his face to go on to Jerusalem,

⁵² and he sent messengers before his face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for him,

⁵³ and they did not receive him, because his face was going on to Jerusalem.

⁵⁴ And his disciples James and John having seen, said, `Sir, wilt thou [that] we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?'

⁵⁵ and having turned, he rebuked them, and said, `Ye have not known of what spirit ye are;

⁵⁶ for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save;' and they went on to another village.

⁵⁷ And it came to pass, as they are going on in the way, a certain one said unto him, `I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go, sir;'

⁵⁸ and Jesus said to him, `The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may recline the head.'

⁵⁹ And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;'

⁶⁰ and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

⁶¹ And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'

⁶² and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'