Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁵ Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it.

⁶ And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

⁷ Be subject to the Lord and pray to him Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

⁸ Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

⁹ For the evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the land.

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.

¹⁹ But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt cease to walk after me.

²⁰ But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.

²¹ A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the children of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have forgotten the Lord their God.

²² Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.

²³ In very deed the hills were liars. and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

²⁴ Confusion hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

²⁵ We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

7 Now concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

² But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

³ Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

⁴ The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

⁶ But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.

⁷ For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.