Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
16 But unto the wicked said God, [a]What hast thou to do to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth,
17 Seeing thou hatest [b]to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?
18 For when thou seest a thief, [c]thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
20 Thou [d]sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mother’s son.
21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reprove thee, and [e]set them in order before thee.
22 Oh consider this ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none that can deliver you.
23 He that offereth [f]praise, shall glorify me: and to him that [g]disposeth his way aright, will I [h]show the salvation of God.
15 ¶ So Nathan departed unto his house: and the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was sick.
16 David therefore besought God for the child, and fasted and [a]went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
17 Then the Elders of his house arose to come unto him, and to cause him to rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat [b]meat with them.
18 So on the seventh day the child died: and the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how then shall we say unto him, The child is dead, [c]to vex him more?
19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
20 Then David [d]arose from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped, and afterward came to his own house, and bade that they should set bread before him, and he did eat.
21 Then [e]said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst rise up, and eat meat,
22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted, and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will have mercy on me, that the child may live?
23 But now being dead, wherefore should I now fast? [f]Can I bring him again anymore? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
24 ¶ And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her, (A)and she bare a son, and [g]he called his name Solomon: also the Lord loved him.
25 For the Lord had sent [h]by Nathan the [i]Prophet: therefore [j](B)he called his name Jedidiah, because the Lord loved him.
17 [a]This I say therefore and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as (A)other Gentiles walk, in [b]vanity of their mind.
18 Having their understanding darkened, and being strangers from the [c]life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart:
19 Which being [d]past feeling, have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all uncleanness, even with [e]greediness.
20 [f]But ye have not so learned Christ,
21 If so be ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, [g]as the truth is in Jesus,
22 (B)That is, that ye cast off, concerning the conversation in time past, [h]that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,
23 And be renewed in the [i]spirit of your mind,
24 And put on the new man, which [j]after God is created unto [k]righteousness, and [l]true holiness.
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