Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Let the LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; let the name of the God of Jacob lift thee up

² and send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Zion

³ and remember all thy offerings and reduce thy burnt sacrifice to the ashes of burnt fat, Selah.

⁴ Grant thee according to thine heart and fulfil all thy counsel.

⁵ We will rejoice in thy saving health, and in the name of our God we will be standard-bearers: let the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.

⁶ ¶ Now know I that the LORD has kept his anointed; he will hear him from the heavens of his holiness with the saving valour of his right hand.

⁷ Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

⁸ They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright.

⁹ The LORD saves the king; let him hear us on the day when we call.

25 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

² Speak unto the sons of Israel that they bring me an offering; of every man that gives it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

³ And this shall be the offering which ye shall take of them: gold and silver and brass

⁴ and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats’ hair

⁵ and rams’ skins dyed red and badgers’ skins and cedar wood,

⁶ oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

⁷ onyx stones and stones to be set in the ephod and in the pectoral.

⁸ And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

⁹ According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its vessels, even so shall ye make it.

¹⁰ ¶ And they shall make an ark of cedar wood; two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

¹¹ And thou shalt cover it with pure gold; within and without shalt thou cover it and shalt make upon it a moulding of gold round about.

¹² And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it and put them in the four corners thereof, and two rings shall be in the one side of it and two rings in the other side of it.

¹³ And thou shalt make staves of cedar wood and overlay them with gold.

¹⁴ And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

¹⁵ The staves shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.

¹⁶ And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

¹⁷ And thou shalt make a seat of reconciliation of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be its length and a cubit and a half its breadth.

¹⁸ And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the seat of reconciliation.

¹⁹ And make one cherub on the one end and the other cherub on the other end: even of the seat of reconciliation shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof.

²⁰ And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the seat of reconciliation with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the seat of reconciliation shall the faces of the cherubim be.

²¹ And thou shalt put the seat of reconciliation above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

²² And there I will meet with thee, and I will speak with thee from above the seat of reconciliation, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the sons of Israel.

2 ¶ And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with puffed up speech or wisdom to declare unto you the testimony of God.

² For I judged not to know anything among you, except 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 with enticing words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁵ that your faith should not be founded in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶ ¶ For we speak perfect wisdom of God, and not the wisdom of this age nor of the princes of this age, that come to nought,

⁷ but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages unto our glory,

⁸ which none of the princes of this age knew (for had they known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).

⁹ But as it is written, That which eye has not seen nor ear heard neither has entered into the heart of man is that which God has prepared for those that love him.

¹⁰ But God has revealed this unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.