Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

46 Unto the end, for the sons of Core.

² O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of Joy,

³ For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.

⁴ He hath subdued the people under us; and the nations under our feet.

⁵ He hath chosen for us his inheritance the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

⁶ God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

⁷ Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing ye.

⁸ For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.

⁹ God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

¹⁰ The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

12 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

³ I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed:

⁴ So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

⁵ And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

⁶ Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

⁷ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

⁸ And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

⁹ And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.

¹⁷ But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one, so let him walk: and so in all churches I teach.

¹⁸ Is any man called, being circumcised? let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God.

²⁰ Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.

²¹ Wast thou called, being a bondman? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

²² For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ.

²³ You are bought with a price; be not made the bondslaves of men.

²⁴ Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.