Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

118 Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age [is] His kindness.

² I pray you, let Israel say, That, to the age [is] His kindness.

¹⁴ My strength and song [is] Jah, And He is to me for salvation.

¹⁵ A voice of singing and salvation, [Is] in the tents of the righteous, The right hand of Jehovah is doing valiantly.

¹⁶ The right hand of Jehovah is exalted, The right hand of Jehovah is doing valiantly.

¹⁷ I do not die, but live, And recount the works of Jah,

¹⁸ Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.

¹⁹ Open ye to me gates of righteousness, I enter into them -- I thank Jah.

²⁰ This [is] the gate to Jehovah, The righteous enter into it.

²¹ I thank Thee, for Thou hast answered me, And art to me for salvation.

²² A stone the builders refused Hath become head of a corner.

²³ From Jehovah hath this been, It [is] wonderful in our eyes,

²⁴ This [is] the day Jehovah hath made, We rejoice and are glad in it.

²⁰ And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

²¹ And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that [it is] good.

²² And God blesseth them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

²³ and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fifth.

²⁴ And God saith, `Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

²⁵ And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that [it is] good.

²⁶ And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

²⁷ And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

²⁸ And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

²⁹ And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which [is] the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

³⁰ and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which [is] breath of life, every green herb [is] for food:' and it is so.

³¹ And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day the sixth.

2 And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

² and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

³ And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

⁴ These [are] births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

⁵⁰ And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

⁵¹ lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:

⁵³ for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

⁵⁴ and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;

⁵⁵ where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'

⁵⁶ and the sting of the death [is] the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

⁵⁷ and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.