Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶ Honour not thyself before a king, And in the place of the great stand not.

⁷ For better [that] he hath said to thee, `Come thou up hither,' Than [that] he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

112 Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.

² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

³ Wealth and riches [are] in his house, And his righteousness is standing for ever.

⁴ Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

⁵ Good [is] the man -- gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

⁶ For -- to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous.

⁷ Of an evil report he is not afraid, Prepared is His heart, confident in Jehovah.

⁸ Sustained is his heart -- he feareth not, Till that he look on his adversaries.

⁹ He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

¹⁰ The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

13 Let brotherly love remain;

² of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

³ be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

⁴ honourable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

⁵ Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

⁶ so that we do boldly say, `The Lord [is] to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

⁷ Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,

⁸ Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

¹⁵ through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

¹⁶ and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

14 And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,

⁷ And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

⁸ `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

⁹ and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.

¹⁰ `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹² And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;

¹³ but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind,

¹⁴ and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'