Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

5 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man before his master, and honorable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

² And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

³ And she said unto her mistress, “Would to God my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.”

⁴ And one went in and told his lord, saying, “Thus and thus said the maid who is from the land of Israel.”

⁵ And the king of Syria said, “Go now, go; and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel.” And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand pieces of gold and ten changes of raiment.

⁶ And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “Now when this letter has come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest cure him of his leprosy.”

⁷ And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to cure a man of his leprosy? Therefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.”

⁸ And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why hast thou rent thy clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

⁹ So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

¹⁰ And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee and thou shalt be clean.”

¹¹ But Naaman was wroth and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and cure the leper.’

¹² Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

¹³ And his servants came near, and spoke unto him and said, “My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? How much rather then, when he saith to thee, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

¹⁴ Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

30 I will extol Thee, O Lord, for Thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

² O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me.

³ O Lord, Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

⁴ Sing unto the Lord, O ye His saints, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness.

⁵ For His anger endureth but a moment, and in His favor is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

⁶ And in my prosperity I said, “I shall never be moved.”

⁷ Lord, by Thy favor Thou hast made my mountain to stand strong; when Thou didst hide Thy face, I was troubled.

⁸ I cried to Thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication:

⁹ “What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise Thee? Shall it declare Thy truth?

¹⁰ Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; Lord, be Thou my helper!”

¹¹ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

¹² to the end that my glory may sing praise to Thee and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto Thee for ever.

²⁴ Know ye not that those who run in a race all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain it.

²⁵ And every man that striveth for mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

²⁶ I therefore so run, but not with uncertainty; I so fight, but not as one that beateth the air.

²⁷ But I keep control of my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

⁴⁰ And there came a leper to Him, beseeching Him and kneeling down to Him and saying unto Him, “If Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.”

⁴¹ And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand and touched him, and said unto him, “I will; be thou clean.”

⁴² And as soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

⁴³ And He strictly charged him, and forthwith sent him away,

⁴⁴ saying unto him, “See that thou say nothing to any man; but go thy way, show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, as a testimony unto them.”

⁴⁵ But he went out and began to proclaim it much and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, and was outside in desert places. And they came to Him from every quarter.