Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
8 1 The Prophet considering the excellent liberality and Fatherly providence of God toward man, whom he made as it were a god over all his works, doth not only give great thanks, but is astonished with the admiration of the same, as one nothing able to compass such great mercies.
To him that excelleth on [a]Gittith. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord our Lord, how [b]excellent is thy Name in all the world! which hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth [c]of babes and sucklings hast thou [d]ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest [e]still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I behold thine heavens, even the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,
4 What is [f]man, say I, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than [g]God, and crowned him with glory and worship.
6 Thou hast made him to have dominion in the works of thine hands, thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All [h]sheep and oxen: yea, and the beasts of the field:
8 The fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the world!
22 ¶ And at the same time Abimelech and Phichol his chief captain spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.
23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not [a]hurt me, nor my children, nor my children’s children: thou shalt deal with me, and with the country, where thou hast been a stranger, according unto the kindness that I have showed thee.
24 Then Abraham said, I will [b]swear.
25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, [c]I know not who hath done this thing: also thou toldest me not, neither heard I of it but this day.
27 Then Abraham took sheep and beeves, and gave them unto Abimelech: and they two made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 Then Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven lambs, which thou hast set by themselves?
30 And he answered, Because thou shalt receive of mine hand these seven lambs, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have dug this well.
31 Wherefore the place is called [d]Beersheba, because there they both swear.
32 Thus made they a [e]covenant at Beersheba: afterward Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain rose up, and turned again unto the land of the Philistines.
33 ¶ And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and [f]called there on the Name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
34 And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistine’s land a long season.
8 1 He concludeth that there is no condemnation to them, who are grafted in Christ through his Spirit, 3 howsoever they be as yet burdened with sins: 9 For they live through that Spirit, 14 Whose testimony, 15 driveth away all fear, 28 and relieveth our present miseries.
1 Now [a]then there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, which [b]walk not after the [c]flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 [d]For the [e]Law of the Spirit of [f]life which is in [g]Christ Jesus, hath [h]freed me from the Law of sin and of death.
3 [i]For (that that was [j]impossible to the Law, inasmuch as it was weak, because of the [k]flesh) God sending his own Son, in the similitude of [l]sinful flesh, and for [m]sin, [n]condemned sin in the flesh,
4 That that [o]righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled [p]in us, which walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 [q]For they that are after the [r]flesh, savor the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 [s]For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the Spirit is life and peace,
7 [t]Because the wisdom of the flesh is enmity against God: [u]for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 [v]So then they that are in the flesh, cannot please God.
9 [w]Now ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, because the spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, the same is not his.
10 [x]And if Christ be in you, the [y]body is dead, because of sin: but the Spirit is life for righteousness sake.
11 [z]But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that [aa]dwelleth in you.
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