Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

114 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language,

² Judah was His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

³ The sea saw it, and fled; Jordan was driven back.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

⁵ What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye little hills, like lambs?

⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ who turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

³⁶ And Gideon said unto God, “If Thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as Thou hast said—

³⁷ behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that Thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as Thou hast said.”

³⁸ And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

³⁹ And Gideon said unto God, “Let not Thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once. Let me prove, I pray Thee, but this once with the fleece: Let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.”

⁴⁰ And God did so that night; for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

¹² Now if Christ is preached, that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³ But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

¹⁴ and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.

¹⁵ Yea, and we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up, if so it be that the dead rise not.

¹⁶ For if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised;

¹⁷ and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

²⁰ But now Christ is risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of those who slept.