Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

19 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork.

² Day upon day uttereth speech, and night upon night showeth knowledge.

³ There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

⁴ Their sound has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun,

⁵ which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

⁸ The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

⁹ The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

¹¹ Moreover by them is Thy servant warned, and in keeping of them there is great reward.

¹² Who can understand his errors? Cleanse Thou me from secret faults.

¹³ Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. Then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent of the great transgression.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my Strength and my Redeemer.

23 “Thou shalt not raise a false report. Put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

² Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause, following many, to divert judgment.

³ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

⁴ “If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

⁵ If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

⁶ “Thou shalt not divert the judgment from thy poor in his cause.

⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter, and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.

⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe, for the bribe blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous.

⁹ “Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat or drink, or in respect to a holy day or the new moon or the Sabbath days,

¹⁷ which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.

¹⁸ Let no man beguile you of your reward by feigned humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

¹⁹ and not holding to the Head, from whom all the body, having nourishment ministered and knit together by joints and bands, increaseth with the increase from God.

²⁰ Therefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to its ordinances

²¹ (“Touch not, taste not, handle not,”

²² which all are to perish with the using), according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

²³ These things have indeed a show of wisdom in willworship and humility and neglecting of the body, but are not in any honor against the satisfying of the flesh.