Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.

¹³ For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.

¹⁴ The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:

¹⁵ Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.

¹⁶ Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.

¹⁷ God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.

¹⁸ God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations.

⁶ Appear not glorious before the king, and stand not in the place of great men.

⁷ For it is better that it should be said to thee: Come up hither; than that thou shouldst be humbled before the prince.

112 Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.

² Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

³ From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.

⁴ The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens.

⁵ Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

⁶ And looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?

⁷ Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:

⁸ That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people.

⁹ Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

13 Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.

² And hospitality do not forget; for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

³ Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them; and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

⁴ Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

⁵ Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have; for he hath said: I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

⁶ So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.

⁷ Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,

⁸ Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day; and the same for ever.

¹⁵ By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

¹⁶ And do not forget to do good, and to impart; for by such sacrifices God's favour is obtained.

14 And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to eat bread, that they watched him.

⁷ And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:

⁸ When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him:

⁹ And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place: and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.

¹⁰ But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited thee, cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee.

¹¹ Because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

¹² And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee.

¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind;

¹⁴ And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.