Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
18 Also the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I will make him an help [a]meet for him.
19 So the Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and brought them unto the [b]man to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.
20 The man therefore gave names unto all cattle, and to the fowl of the heaven, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam found he not an helper meet for him.
21 ¶ Therefore the Lord God caused an heavy sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in stead thereof.
22 And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, [c]made he a [d]woman, and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, (A)This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called [e]woman, because she was taken out of the man.
24 (B)Therefore shall man leave [f]his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
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!
The Epistle to the Hebrews
The drift and end of this Epistle, is to show that Jesus Christ the Son of God both God and man, is that true eternal and only Prophet, King, and high Priest, that was shadowed by the figures of the old Law, and is now indeed exhibited: of whom the whole Church ought to be taught, governed and sanctified.
1 2 To show that the doctrine which Christ brought, is most excellent, in that it is the knitting up of all prophecies, 4 he advanceth him above the Angels: 10 And proveth by divers testimonies of the Scripture, that he far passeth all others.
1 At [a]sundry times and in divers manners God spake in the old time to our fathers by the Prophets: in these [b]last days he hath spoken unto us by his [c]Son,
2 [d]Whom he hath made [e]heir of all things, by whom also he made the [f]worlds,
3 (A)Who being the [g]brightness of the glory, and the engraved form of his [h]person, and [i]bearing up all things by his mighty word: [j]hath by himself purged our sins: and [k]sitteth at the right hand of the Majesty in the highest places,
4 [l]And is made so much more excellent than the Angels, inasmuch as he hath obtained a more excellent [m]Name than they.
5 [a]For he hath not put in subjection unto the Angels the [b]world to come, whereof we speak.
6 [c]But (A)one in a certain place witnessed, saying, [d]What is man, that thou shouldest be mindful of him? or the [e]son of man, that thou wouldest consider him?
7 Thou [f]madest him a little inferior to the Angels: thou crownedst him with [g]glory and honor, and hast set him above the works of thine hands.
8 (B)Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. And in that he hath put all things in subjection under him, he left nothing that should not be subject unto him. [h]But we yet see not all things subdued unto him,
9 [i]But we [j]see Jesus crowned with glory and honor, (C)which was made little [k]inferior to the Angels, [l]through the [m]suffering of death, that by God’s grace he might [n]taste death for [o]all men.
10 [p]For it became [q]him, for whom are all these things, and by whom are all these things, [r]seeing that he brought many children unto glory, [s]that he should consecrate the [t]Prince of their salvation through afflictions.
11 [u]For he that [v]sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of [w]one: wherefore he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 [x]Saying, (D)I will declare thy Name unto my brethren: in the midst of the Church will I sing praises to thee.
2 Then the Pharisees came and asked him, if it were lawful for a man to put away his wife, and tempted him.
3 And he answered, and said unto them, What did (A)Moses command you?
4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
5 [a]Then Jesus answered, and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote this [b]precept unto you.
6 But at the beginning of the creation (B)God made them male and female:
7 (C)For this cause shall man leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife.
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so that they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 (D)Therefore, what God hath coupled together, let not man separate.
10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of that matter.
11 And he said unto them, (E)whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, commiteth adultery [c]against her.
12 And if a woman put away her husband, and be married to another, she commiteth adultery.
13 ¶ (F)[d]Then they brought little children to him, that he should touch them, and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
14 But when Jesus saw it, he was displeased, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God [e]as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
16 And he took them up in his arms, and put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
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