Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁰ Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee.

¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power:

¹² To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.

¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works.

¹⁴ The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down.

¹⁵ The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season.

⁶ Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?

⁷ Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?

⁸ All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man's sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.

⁹ King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:

¹⁰ The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going up of purple: the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹ Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the joy of his heart.

⁶ These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.

⁷ But avoid foolish and old wives' fables: and exercise thyself unto godliness.

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

⁹ A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

¹⁰ For therefore we labor and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

¹¹ These things command and teach.

¹² Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

¹³ Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.

¹⁴ Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophesy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

¹⁵ Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

¹⁶ Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.