Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears.

⁹ All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be justified, and hear, and say: It is truth.

¹⁰ You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none.

¹¹ I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me.

¹² I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there was no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God.

¹³ And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

⁴ And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.

⁵ Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

⁶ Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.

⁷ Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void:

⁸ How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?

⁹ For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.

¹⁰ For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

¹¹ For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is in glory.