Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.
1 ¶ It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 To show forth thy mercy in the morning and thy faithfulness every night
3 upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the psaltery, upon the harp with a pleasant sound.
4 For thou, O LORD, hast made me glad with thy work; I will delight in the works of thy hands.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be vigorous and flourishing
15 to show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
13 ¶ A wise son takes his father’s chastening: but a scorner does not hear rebuke.
2 ¶ Of the fruit of his mouth man shall eat well: but the soul of the transgressors shall starve.
3 ¶ He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens his lips often shall have calamity.
4 ¶ The soul of the sluggard desires, and attains nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
5 ¶ The righteous man hates lying: but the wicked man makes himself loathsome, and abominable.
6 ¶ Righteousness keeps the one of the perfect way: but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
7 ¶ There are those that make themselves rich, yet have nothing: there are those that make themselves poor, yet have great riches.
8 ¶ The redemption of a man’s life is his riches: but the poor does not hear rebuke.
9 ¶ The light of the righteous shall rejoice: but the fire of the wicked shall be put out.
10 ¶ Pride shall certainly give birth to contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
11 ¶ The riches of vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.
12 ¶ Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
12 Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned.
13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but the sin was not imputed, there being no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even in those that did not sin after the manner of the rebellion of Adam, who is a figure of him that was to come.
15 But not as the offense, so also is the gift. For if through the offense of that one many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of one man, Jesus the Christ, has abounded unto many.
16 Nor was it in the same manner as by one sin, likewise also the gift; for the judgment truly came of one sin unto condemnation, but grace came of many offenses unto justification.
17 For if by one offense, death reigned because of one man; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of gifts and of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus the Christ.
18 Therefore, in the same manner that by the iniquity of one guilt came upon all men unto condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, grace came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,
21 so that in the same manner as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.
6 ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?
Copyright © 2013, 2020 by Ransom Press International