Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

145 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.

² Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:

³ In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

⁵ Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.

⁷ Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

⁸ The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

⁹ The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.

4 How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which Come up from mount Galaad.

² Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are shorn which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.

³ Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.

⁴ Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.

⁵ Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

⁶ Till the day break, and the shadows retire, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

⁷ Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot in thee.

⁸ Come from Libanus, my spouse, come from Libanus, come: thou shalt be crowned from the top of Amana, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

³ Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus,

⁵ That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;

⁶ As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

⁷ So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁰ Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

¹¹ For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them that are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

¹² Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I am of Cephas; and I of Christ.

¹³ Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

¹⁴ I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Caius;

¹⁵ Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name.

¹⁶ And I baptized also the household of Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

¹⁷ For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.