Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
21 ¶ Truly my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my kidneys.
22 But I was ignorant and did not understand; I was as a beast before thee.
23 Nevertheless I was continually with thee; thou hast apprehended me by my right hand.
24 Thou hast guided me with thy counsel, and afterward thou shalt receive me unto glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? And apart from thee there is nothing upon the earth that I desire.
26 My flesh and my heart fail; the strength of my heart is that God is my portion for ever.
27 For, behold, those that stray from thee shall perish; thou dost cut off all those that go a whoring from thee.
28 But as for me, to draw near to God is good; I have put my hope in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
22 ¶ A good reputation is rather to be chosen than great riches and good grace rather than silver and gold.
2 ¶ The rich and poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.
3 ¶ A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and receive hurt.
4 ¶ Riches and honour and life are the remuneration of humility and of the fear of the LORD.
5 ¶ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he that keeps his soul shall be far from them.
6 ¶ Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7 ¶ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
8 ¶ He that sows iniquity shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.
9 ¶ He that has a merciful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the destitute.
10 ¶ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; strife and reproach shall cease.
11 ¶ He that loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
12 ¶ The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.
13 ¶ The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
14 ¶ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
15 ¶ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
16 ¶ He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.
17 ¶ Bow down thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my wisdom.
18 For it is a delightful thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall be ordered together in thy lips.
19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
20 Have I not written unto thee three times in counsels and knowledge,
21 that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mightest answer the words of truth to those that send unto thee?
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin;
10 as it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one;
11 there is no one that understands; there is no one that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,
14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
15 their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 destruction and misery are in their ways,
17 and the way of peace they have not known;
18 there is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 ¶ Now we know that all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God.
20 For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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