Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
128 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in His ways.
2 When you eat the labors of your hands, you shall be blessed; and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.
4 Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.
5 The LORD out of Zion shall bless you; and you shall see the wealth of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
6 Indeed, you shall see your children’s children. Peace upon Israel. A song of degrees
5 Do not be rash with your mouth, or let your heart be hasty to utter a thing before God. For God is in Heaven and you are on the Earth. Therefore, let your words be few.
2 For as a dream comes by the multitude of business, so the voice of a fool is in the multitude of words.
3 When you have vowed a vow to God, do not delay in paying it. For He does not delight in fools. Pay what you have promised.
4 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay it.
5 Do not allow your mouth to make your flesh sin, nor say before the Angel that this is ignorance. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
6 For in the multitude of dreams and vanities are also many words. But fear God.
7 If in a country you see the oppression of the poor and the defrauding of judgment and justice, do not be astonished at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches. And there is higher than they.
8 And the abundance of the Earth is for all. The king also subsists on the field that is tilled.
9 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver. And he who loves riches shall be without its fruit. This is also vanity.
10 When goods increase, those who consume them are increased. And what good comes to their owners, but the beholding with their eyes?
11 The sleep of him who travails is sweet, whether he eats little or much. But the satiety of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
12 There is an evil sickness that I have seen under the Sun: riches reserved to their owners for their evil.
13 And these riches perish by evil travail. And when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.
14 As he came forth from his mother’s belly, he shall return, naked, to go as he came, and shall carry away nothing from his labor which he has caused to pass by his hand.
15 And this also is an evil sickness: in all points, as he came so shall he go. And what profit does he have who has labored for the wind?
16 Also, all his days he eats in darkness with much grief, and in his sorrow and anger.
17 Behold, then, what I have seen as good: that it is comely to eat and to drink and to take pleasure in all his labor in which he labors under the Sun, the whole number of the days of his life which God gives him. For this is his portion.
18 Also, to every man to whom God has given riches and treasures, to whom He gives power to eat of it, and to take his part, and to enjoy his labor — these are the gifts of God.
19 Surely, he will not well remember the days of his life, because God answers to the joy of his heart.
21 Then Jesus said again to them, “I go My way. And you shall seek Me and shall die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come.”
22 Then said the Jews, “Will He kill himself? Because, He says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?”
23 And He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
24 “Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins.”
25 Then they said to Him, “Who are you?” And Jesus said to them, “Still the same that I said to you from the beginning.
26 “I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But the One Who sent Me is true. And the things that I have heard from Him, those I speak to the world.”
27 They did not understand what He spoke to them about the Father.
28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you shall know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself. But as My Father has taught Me, I spoke these things.
29 “For He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, because I always do those things that please Him.”
30 As He spoke these things, many believed in Him.
31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
32 “And you shall know the truth. And the truth shall make you free.”
33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s seed, and were never slave to anyone. Why then do You say, ‘You shall be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly I say to you that whoever commits sin is the servant of sin.
35 “And the servant does not abide in the house forever. But the Son abides forever.
36 “If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
37 “I know that you are Abraham’s seed. But you seek to kill Me because My Word has no place in you.
38 “I speak that which I have seen with My Father. And you do that which you have seen with your father.”
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