Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
11 In the LORD I put my trust. How, then, can you say to my soul, “Flee to your mountain as a bird”?
2 For lo, the wicked bend their bow and make ready their arrows upon the string, so that they may secretly shoot at those who are upright in heart.
3 For if the foundations are cast down, what can the righteous do?
4 The LORD is in His Holy palace. The LORD’s throne is in the sky. His eyes behold. His eyelids try the children of men.
5 The LORD will try the righteous. But the wicked, and he who loves iniquity, His soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and stormy tempest. This is the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness. His face beholds the just. To him who excels upon the eight tune: A Psalm of David.
13 And King Solomon raised a sum from all Israel. And the sum was thirty thousand men,
14 whom he sent to Lebanon, ten thousand a month, changing regularly. They were a month in Lebanon, and two months at home. And Adoniram was over the sum.
15 And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand masons on the mountain
16 (besides the princes whom Solomon appointed over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled the people who fashioned the work).
17 And the king commanded them, and they brought great stones and costly stones to make the foundations of the House: hewn stones.
18 And Solomon’s workmen and the workmen of Hiram and the masons cut and prepared timber and stones for the building of the House.
21 submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the wife’s head, even as Christ is the head of the Church. And the same is the Savior of the body.
24 But, as the Church is in subjection to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for her;
26 so that He might sanctify her and cleanse her by the washing of water through the Word,
27 So that He might make her a glorious Church to Himself, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. But that it should be holy and without blame.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife, loves himself.
29 For no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord does the Church.
30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife. And the two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great secret. But I speak concerning Christ and concerning the Church.
33 Yet, let every one of you do the same. Let everyone love his wife, even as himself. And let the wife see that she fears her husband.
6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord. For this is right.
2 Honor your father and mother (which is the first Commandment with a promise),
3 so that it may be well with you and that you may live long on Earth.
4 And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger. But bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
5 Servants, be obedient to your masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of heart, as unto Christ;
6 not with service to the eye (as man-pleasers) but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart
7 with good will, serving the Lord and not man.
8 And know that whatever good thing anyone does, that same shall he receive from the Lord, whether slave or free.
9 And masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening and knowing that your master also is in Heaven. And there is no partiality with Him.
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