Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

101 A Psalm of David. Kindness and judgment I sing, To Thee, O Jehovah, I sing praise.

² I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

³ I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

⁴ A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.

⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

⁶ Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me.

⁷ He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.

⁸ At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity!

¹⁶ then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him,

¹⁷ and the one woman saith, `O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house;

¹⁸ and it cometh to pass on the third day of my bringing forth, that this woman also bringeth forth, and we [are] together, there is no stranger with us in the house, save we two, in the house.

¹⁹ And the son of this woman dieth at night, because she hath lain upon it,

²⁰ and she riseth in the middle of the night, and taketh my son from beside me -- and thy handmaid is asleep -- and layeth it in her bosom, and her dead son she hath laid in my bosom;

²¹ and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and lo, dead; and I consider concerning it in the morning, and lo, it was not my son whom I did bear.'

²² And the other woman saith, `Nay, but my son [is] the living, and thy son the dead;' and this [one] saith, `Nay, but thy son [is] the dead, and my son the living.' And they speak before the king.

²³ And the king saith, `This [one] saith, This [is] my son, the living, and thy son [is] the dead; and that [one] saith, Nay, but thy son [is] the dead, and my son the living.'

²⁴ And the king saith, `Take for me a sword;' and they bring the sword before the king,

²⁵ and the king saith, `Cut the living child into two, and give the half to the one, and the half to the other.'

²⁶ And the woman whose son [is] the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this [one] saith, `Let it be neither mine or thine -- cut [it].'

²⁷ And the king answereth and saith, `Give ye to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she [is] its mother.'

²⁸ And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king hath judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of God [is] in his heart, to do judgment.

6 And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,

² and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, `It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables;

³ look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,

⁴ and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'

⁵ And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

⁶ whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them [their] hands.

⁷ And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.