Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁵ `A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee -- unto him ye hearken;

¹⁶ according to all that thou didst ask from Jehovah thy God, in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not add to hear the voice of Jehovah my God, and this great fire let me not see any more, and I die not;

¹⁷ and Jehovah saith unto me, They have done well that they have spoken;

¹⁸ a prophet I raise up to them, out of the midst of their brethren, like to thee; and I have given my words in his mouth, and he hath spoken unto them all that which I command him;

¹⁹ and it hath been -- the man who doth not hearken unto My words which he doth speak in My name, I require [it] of him.

²⁰ `Only, the prophet who presumeth to speak a word in My name -- that which I have not commanded him to speak -- and who speaketh in the name of other gods -- even that prophet hath died.

111 Praise ye Jah! I thank Jehovah with the whole heart, In the secret meeting of the upright, And of the company.

² Great [are] the works of Jehovah, Sought out by all desiring them.

³ Honourable and majestic is His work, And His righteousness is standing for ever.

⁴ A memorial He hath made of His wonders, Gracious and merciful [is] Jehovah.

⁵ Prey He hath given to those fearing Him, He remembereth to the age His covenant.

⁶ The power of His works He hath declared to His people, To give to them the inheritance of nations.

⁷ The works of His hands [are] true and just, Stedfast [are] all His appointments.

⁸ They are sustained for ever to the age. They are made in truth and uprightness.

⁹ Redemption He hath sent to His people, He hath appointed to the age His covenant, Holy and fearful [is] His name.

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom [is] fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise [is] standing for ever!

8 And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

² and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth [him] to know;

³ and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

⁴ Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

⁵ for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many --

⁶ yet to us [is] one God, the Father, of whom [are] the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] the all things, and we through Him;

⁷ but not in all men [is] the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat [it], and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁸ But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

⁹ but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

¹⁰ for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

¹¹ and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

¹² and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;

¹³ wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

²¹ And they go on to Capernaum, and immediately, on the sabbaths, having gone into the synagogue, he was teaching,

²² and they were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

²³ And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

²⁴ saying, `Away! what -- to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.'

²⁵ And Jesus rebuked him, saying, `Be silenced, and come forth out of him,'

²⁶ and the unclean spirit having torn him, and having cried with a great voice, came forth out of him,

²⁷ and they were all amazed, so as to reason among themselves, saying, `What is this? what new teaching [is] this? that with authority also the unclean spirits he commandeth, and they obey him!'

²⁸ And the fame of him went forth immediately to all the region, round about, of Galilee.