Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

6 In the year of the death of king Uzziah -- I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple.

² Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two [each] covereth its face, and with two [each] covereth its feet, and with two [each] flieth.

³ And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, [is] Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth [is] His glory.'

⁴ And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.

⁵ And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips [am] I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

⁶ And flee unto me doth one of the seraphs, and in his hand a burning coal, (with tongs he hath taken [it] from off the altar,)

⁷ and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: `Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.'

⁸ And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: `Whom do I send? and who doth go for Us?' And I say, `Here [am] I, send me.'

29 A Psalm of David. Ascribe to Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe to Jehovah honour and strength.

² Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.

³ The voice of Jehovah [is] on the waters, The God of glory hath thundered, Jehovah [is] on many waters.

⁴ The voice of Jehovah [is] with power, The voice of Jehovah [is] with majesty,

⁵ The voice of Jehovah [is] shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems,

⁷ The voice of Jehovah is hewing fiery flames,

⁸ The voice of Jehovah paineth a wilderness, Jehovah paineth the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah paineth the oaks, And maketh bare the forests, And in His temple every one saith, `Glory.'

¹⁰ Jehovah on the deluge hath sat, And Jehovah sitteth king -- to the age,

¹¹ Jehovah strength to his people giveth, Jehovah blesseth His people with peace!

¹² So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

¹³ for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

¹⁴ for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

¹⁵ for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.'

¹⁶ The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

¹⁷ and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

3 And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

² this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

³ Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

⁴ Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

⁵ Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

⁶ that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷ `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

⁸ the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'

⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

¹¹ `Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

¹² if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

¹³ and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

¹⁴ `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

¹⁵ that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

¹⁷ For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;