Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁸ Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing; it shall come to light quickly; shall ye not know it? I will again make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

²⁰ The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my people, my chosen.

²¹ This people I have formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.

²² ¶ But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

²³ Thou hast not brought me the animals of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

²⁴ Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices, but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins; thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

²⁵ I, even I, am he that uproots thy rebellions for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins.

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Blessed is he that understands regarding the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

² The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth, and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

³ The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; thou wilt soften all his bed in his sickness.

⁴ I said, LORD, be merciful unto me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

⁵ ¶ My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die and his name perish?

⁶ And if he came to see me, he spoke lies: his heart gathered iniquity to itself, and when he goes out, he tells it.

⁷ All that hate me congregate together and murmur against me; against me do they devise my hurt.

⁸ A disease of Belial, they say, cleaves fast unto him, and now that he lies he shall rise up no more.

⁹ Even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰ But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me and raise me up that I may requite them.

¹¹ In this I shall know that I have pleased thee, that my enemy does not triumph over me.

¹² And as for me, thou sustained me in my integrity and hast seated me before thy face for ever.

¹³ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

¹⁸ But God is faithful that our word toward you has not been yes and no.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, has not been yes and no, but in him was yes.

²⁰ For all the promises of God are yes in him, and in him Amen, by us for the glory of God.

²¹ Now he who confirms us with you unto Christ and has anointed us is God;

²² who has also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

2 ¶ And again he entered into Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that he was in the house.

² And soon many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door; and he preached the word unto them.

³ And they came unto him, bringing a paralytic, carried by four men.

⁴ And when they could not come near unto him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof of the house where he was; and when they had broken it open, they let down the bed in which the paralytic lay.

⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the paralytic, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.

⁶ But there were certain of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts,

⁷ Why does this fellow so blaspheme? Who can forgive sins but God only?

⁸ And Jesus, knowing afterward in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said unto them, Why think ye these things in your hearts?

⁹ What is easier to say to the paralytic, Thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and take up thy bed and walk?

¹⁰ But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins (he spoke to the sick of the palsy),

¹¹ I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy bed and go to thy house.

¹² And by and by he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw anything like unto this.