Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
MEM
97 Oh how love I thy law! it is my meditation [a]continually.
98 By thy commandments thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have had more [b]understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understood more than the ancient, because I kept thy precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102 I have not declined from thy judgments: for [c]thou didst teach me.
103 How sweet are thy promises unto my mouth! yea, more than honey unto my mouth.
104 By thy precepts I have gotten understanding: therefore I hate all the ways of falsehood.
9 The people repent, and forsake their strange wives. 5 The Levites exhort them to praise God, 6 Declaring his wonders, 26 And their ingratitude, 30 And God’s great mercies toward them.
1 In the four and twentieth day of this [a]month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.
2 (And they that were of the seed of Israel were separated from all the [b]strangers) and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the Law of the Lord their God four times on the day, and they [c]confessed and worshipped the Lord their God four times.
4 Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God.
5 And the Levites said, even Jeshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, Stand up and praise the Lord your God forever and ever, and let them praise thy glorious Name, O God, which excelleth above all thanksgiving and praise.
6 Thou art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of all heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that are in them and thou preservest them all and the host of the heaven worshippeth thee.
7 Thou art, O Lord, the God, that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of (A)Ur in Chaldeans, and (B)madest his name Abraham,
8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, (C)and madest a Covenant with him, to give unto his seed the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy words, because thou art just.
9 (D)Thou hast also considered the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the red Sea,
10 And showed tokens and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: therefore thou madest thee a Name, as appeareth this day.
11 (E)For thou didst break up the Sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry land: and those that pursued them, hast thou cast into the bottoms as a stone, in the mighty waters:
12 And (F)leddest them in the day with a pillar of a cloud, and in the night with a pillar of fire to give them light in the way that they went.
13 (G)Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest unto them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, ordinances and good Commandments,
14 And declaredst unto them thine holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, and ordinances, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
15 (H)And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, (I)and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst: and (J)promisedst them that they should go in, and take possession of the land: for the which thou hadst lifted up thine hand for to give them.
21 [a]Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 ¶(A)[b]Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, [c]as unto the Lord.
23 (B)[d]For the husband is the wife’s head, even as Christ is the head of the Church, [e]and the same is the Savior of his body.
24 [f]Therefore as the Church is in subjection to Christ, even so let the wives be to their husbands in everything.
25 ¶ (C)[g]Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it,
26 [h]That he might [i]sanctify it, and cleanse it by the washing of water through the [j]word,
27 That he might make it unto himself a glorious Church, [k]not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and without blame.
28 [l]So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his [m]own flesh, but nourished and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth the Church.
30 For we are members of his body, [n]of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 (D)For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall [o]cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.
32 [p]This is a great secret, but I speak concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.
33 [q]Therefore everyone of you, do ye so: let everyone love his wife, even as himself, and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
6 1 He showeth the duties of children, 5 servants, 9 and masters: 10 Then he speaketh of the fierce battle that the faithful have, 12 and what weapons we must use in the same: 21 In the end he commendeth Tychicus.
1 Children, (E)[r]obey your parents [s]in the [t]Lord: [u]for this is right.
2 (F)[v]Honor thy father and mother ([w]which is the first commandment with [x]promise)
3 That it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on earth.
4 [y]And ye, fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in instruction and [z]information of the Lord.
5 (G)[aa]Servants, be obedient unto them that are your masters, [ab]according to the flesh, with [ac]fear and trembling in singleness of your hearts, as unto Christ,
6 Not with service to the eye, as men pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, [ad]doing the will of God from the heart.
7 With good will, serving the [ae]Lord, and not men.
8 [af]And know ye that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, that same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free,
9 [ag]And ye masters, do the same things unto them, putting away threatening: and know that even your master also is in heaven, neither is there (H)[ah]respect of person with him.
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