Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ I put my trust in the LORD: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

² For, behold, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

³ The foundations shall be destroyed. What has the righteous done?

⁴ ¶ The LORD is in the temple of his holiness, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

⁵ The LORD tries the righteous, but the wicked and he that loves violence his soul hates.

⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, with winds of whirlwinds: this shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance beholds the upright.

¹³ And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men,

¹⁴ whom he sent to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; they were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.

¹⁵ And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;

¹⁶ besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, there were three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people that did the work.

¹⁷ And the king commanded that they bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the house, and hewed stones.

¹⁸ And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders hewed them, and the stonesquarers; so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

²¹ ¶ submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husband, as unto the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife even as the Christ is head of the congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and it is he who gives saving health to the body.

²⁴ Therefore, as the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} is subject unto the Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives even as the Christ also loved the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and gave himself for her,

²⁶ that he might sanctify and cleanse her in the washing of water by the word,

²⁷ that he might present her glorious for himself, a congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸ So ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.

²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it even as the Lord with his congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

³⁰ For 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 be joined unto his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

³³ Nevertheless, let each one of you do likewise, let each one so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverences her husband.

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

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

³ that it may be well with thee, and thou may live long on the earth.

⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

⁵ Slaves, be obedient to those that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto the Christ,

⁶ not to be seen as only pleasing men, but as the slaves of the Christ, doing the will of God from within,

⁷ with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,

⁸ knowing that whatever good thing anyone does, the same shall they receive of the Lord, whether they are slaves or free.

⁹ And, ye masters, do the same unto them, forbearing threats, knowing that their Master and yours is also in the heavens and that he is no respecter of persons.