Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁵ And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (the number of names altogether were about a hundred and twenty) and said,

¹⁶ “Men and brethren, it was necessary that this Scripture be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who was the guide to those who took Jesus.

¹⁷ For he was numbered with us, and had obtained a part of this ministry.

²¹ Therefore from these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

²² beginning from the baptism of John until that same day that He was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of His resurrection.”

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

²⁴ And they prayed and said, “Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show us which of these two Thou hast chosen,

²⁵ that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.”

²⁶ And they cast their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful;

² but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law doth he meditate day and night.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

⁴ The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater, for this is the witness of God which He hath testified of His Son.

¹⁰ He that believeth in the Son of God hath the witness in himself; he that believeth not God hath made Him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son.

¹¹ And this is the record: that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

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

¹³ These things I have written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

⁶ “I have manifested Thy name unto the men whom Thou gavest Me out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to Me, and they have kept Thy Word.

⁷ Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given Me are of Thee.

⁸ For I have given unto them the Words which Thou gavest Me; and they have received them and have known surely 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, for they are Thine.

¹⁰ And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine, and I am glorified in them.

¹¹ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, as We are.

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Thy name. Those that Thou gavest Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³ “And now come I to Thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

¹⁴ I have given them Thy Word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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

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

¹⁷ Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth.

¹⁸ As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.