Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

² But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

³ And he [is] as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

⁴ The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶ For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

24 Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.

² One basket had very good figs, like the figs first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.

³ And Jehovah said unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs very good; and the bad very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.

⁴ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

⁵ Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard for good them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans;

⁶ and I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

⁷ And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

⁸ And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, surely, thus saith Jehovah: So will I make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.

⁹ And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them;

¹⁰ and I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

16 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so do *ye* do also.

² On [the] first of [the] week let each of you put by at home, laying up [in] whatever [degree] he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.

³ And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

⁴ and if it be suitable that *I* also should go, they shall go with me.

⁵ But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia.

⁶ But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that *ye* may set me forward wheresoever I may go.

⁷ For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.

⁸ But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.

⁹ For a great door is opened to me and an effectual [one], and [the] adversaries many.

¹⁰ Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.

¹¹ Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

¹² Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all [his] will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.