Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

7 And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

² He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?

³ And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in thy heart: because the Lord is with thee.

⁴ But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:

⁵ Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?

⁶ Whereas I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt even to this day: but have walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent.

⁷ In all the places that I have gone through with all the children of Israel, did ever I speak a word to any one of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

⁸ And now thus shalt thou speak to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: a I took thee out of the pastures from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel:

⁹ And I have been with thee wheresoever thou hast walked, and have slain all thy enemies from before thy face: and I have made thee a great man, like unto the name of the great ones that are on the earth.

¹⁰ And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell therein, and shall be disturbed no more: neither shall the children of iniquity afflict them any more as they did before,

¹¹ From the day that I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I will give thee rest from all thy enemies. And the Lord foretelleth to thee, that the Lord will make thee a house.

¹² And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

¹³ He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

¹⁴ I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

¹¹ For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands;

¹² That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

¹⁴ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

¹⁵ Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

¹⁶ And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

¹⁷ And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off, and peace to them that were nigh.

¹⁸ For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹ Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God,

²⁰ Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

²¹ In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

²² In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

³⁰ And the apostles coming together unto Jesus, related to him all things that they had done and taught.

³¹ And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a little. For there were many coming and going: and they had not so much as time to eat.

³² And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart.

³³ And they saw them going away, and many knew: and they ran flocking thither on foot from all the cities, and were there before them.

³⁴ And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

⁵³ And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Genezareth, and set to the shore.

⁵⁴ And when they were gone out of the ship, immediately they knew him:

⁵⁵ And running through that whole country, they began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.

⁵⁶ And whithersoever he entered, into towns or into villages or cities, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch but the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.