Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

116 I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications.

² Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.

¹² What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me?

¹³ I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord.

¹⁴ I will pay my vows unto the Lord now, in the presence of all His people.

¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.

¹⁶ O Lord, truly I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant and the son of Thine handmaid; Thou hast loosed my bonds.

¹⁷ I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.

¹⁸ I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all His people,

¹⁹ in the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord!

21 And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as He had spoken.

² For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

³ And Abraham called the name of his son who was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

⁵ And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him.

⁶ And Sarah said, “God hath made me laugh, so that all who hear will laugh with me.”

⁷ And she said, “Who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

3 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

² who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all His house.

³ For this Man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who hath built the house hath more honor than the house.

⁴ For every house is built by some man, but He that built all things is God.

⁵ And Moses verily was faithful in all His house as a servant, as a testimony of those things which were to be spoken thereafter;

⁶ but Christ was faithful as a Son over His own house, whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope, firm unto the end.