Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

20 Unto the end. A psalm for David.

² In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.

³ Thou hast given him his heart's desire: and hast not withholden from him the will of his lips.

⁴ For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.

⁵ He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.

⁶ His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him.

⁷ For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

⁸ For the king hopeth in the Lord: and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

⁹ Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee.

¹⁰ Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

¹¹ Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.

¹² For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.

¹³ For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

¹⁴ Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and praise thy power.

25 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

² Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.

³ And these are the things you must take: gold, and silver, and brass,

⁴ Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

⁵ And rams' skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:

⁶ Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling incense:

⁷ Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.

⁸ And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:

⁹ According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall make it:

¹⁰ Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two cubits and a half: the breadth, a cubit and a half: the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.

¹¹ And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold within and without: and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:

¹² And four golden rings, which thou shall put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.

¹³ Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

¹⁴ And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them.

¹⁵ And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any time be drawn out of them.

¹⁶ And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

¹⁷ Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.

¹⁸ Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle.

¹⁹ Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other.

²⁰ Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered.

²¹ In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.

²² Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee.

2 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.

² For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;

⁵ That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

⁶ Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought;

⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:

⁸ Which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹ But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

¹⁰ But to us God hath revealed them, by this Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.