Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

11 Unto the end; for the octave, a psalm for David.

² Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.

³ They have spoken vain things every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

⁴ May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.

⁵ Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?

⁶ By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I win set him in safety; I will deal confidently in his regard.

⁷ The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth refined seven times.

⁸ Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation for ever.

⁹ The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

¹³ And king Solomon chose workmen cut of all Israel, and the levy was of thirty thousand men.

¹⁴ And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.

¹⁵ And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

¹⁶ Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand, and three hundred that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.

¹⁷ And the king commanded, that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

¹⁸ And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

²¹ Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.

²² Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

²³ Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:

²⁶ That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish.

²⁸ So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

³⁰ Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

³² This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church.

³³ Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

² Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:

³ That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.

⁴ And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁵ Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ:

⁶ Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men, but, as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

⁷ With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men.

⁸ Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond, or free.

⁹ And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatenings, knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven; and there is no respect of persons with him.