Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁵ In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said: (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty:)

¹⁶ Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus:

¹⁷ Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

²¹ Wherefore of these men who have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,

²² Beginning from the baptism of John, until the day wherein he was taken up from us, one of these must be made a witness with us of his resurrection.

²³ And they appointed two, Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

²⁴ And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

²⁵ To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.

²⁶ And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.

² But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

³ And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

⁴ Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

⁹ If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son.

¹⁰ He that believeth in the Son of God, hath the testimony of God in himself. He that believeth not the Son, maketh him a liar: because he believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son.

¹² He that hath the Son, hath life. He that hath not the Son, hath not life.

¹³ These things I write to you, that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

⁶ I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them; and they have kept thy word.

⁷ Now they have known, that all things which thou hast given me, are from thee:

⁸ Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

⁹ I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine:

¹⁰ And all my things are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

¹¹ And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.

¹² While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.

¹³ And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world; as I also am not of the world.

¹⁵ I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

¹⁷ Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

¹⁹ And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.