Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

⁵ Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

⁶ To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

⁷ Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.

113 Praise ye Jah! Praise, ye servants of Jehovah. Praise the name of Jehovah.

² The name of Jehovah is blessed, From henceforth, and unto the age.

³ From the rising of the sun unto its going in, Praised [is] the name of Jehovah.

⁴ High above all nations [is] Jehovah, Above the heavens [is] his honour.

⁵ Who [is] as Jehovah our God, He is exalting [Himself] to sit?

⁶ He is humbling [Himself] to look On the heavens and on the earth.

⁷ He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

⁸ To cause to sit with princes, With the princes of His people.

⁹ Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

2 I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

² for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

³ for this [is] right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

⁴ who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

⁵ for one [is] God, one also [is] mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁶ who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --

⁷ in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

16 And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;

² and having called him, he said to him, What [is] this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

³ `And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --

⁴ I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.

⁵ `And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?

⁶ and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.

⁷ `Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.

⁸ `And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

⁹ and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

¹⁰ `He who is faithful in the least, [is] also faithful in much; and he who in the least [is] unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;

¹¹ if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful -- the true who will entrust to you?

¹² and if in the other's ye became not faithful -- your own, who shall give to you?

¹³ `No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'