Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer: for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.

¹ ¶ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in tribulation.

² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea,

³ though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the violence thereof. Selah.

⁴ There is a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the tents of the most High.

⁵ God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her, as the morning dawns.

⁶ ¶ The Gentiles raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

⁷ The LORD of the hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

⁸ Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he has made in the earth.

⁹ He makes wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and cuts the spear in sunder; he burns the chariot in the fire.

¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted in the Gentiles, I will be exalted in the earth.

¹¹ The LORD of the hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

3 ¶ Now the serpent was more astute than all the animals of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Has God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

² And the woman answered unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it; neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

⁴ Then the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

⁵ For God knows that in the day ye eat of it then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

⁶ ¶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and a tree of covetousness to understand, she took of its fruit and ate and gave also unto her husband with her; and he ate.

⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves girdles.

⁸ And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

⁹ ¶ And the LORD God called unto the man and said unto him, Where art thou?

¹⁰ And he replied, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.

¹¹ ¶ And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee not to eat?

¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

¹³ Then the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

¹⁴ ¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all beasts and above every animal of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life;

¹⁵ and I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed; that seed shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

¹⁶ ¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth sons; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

¹⁷ ¶ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

¹⁸ thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field;

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

²⁰ ¶ And the man called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living.

²¹ ¶ Then the LORD God made coats of skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

²² ¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever,

²³ therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life.

7 ¶ Judge not, that ye be not judged.

² For with the judgment with which ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with the measure with which ye measure, ye shall be measured again.

³ And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother’s eye but dost not consider the beam that is in thine own eye?

⁴ Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

⁵ Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou be able to see to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

⁶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you.