Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

27 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

² Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.

³ Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.

⁴ Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.

⁵ Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my supplication.

⁷ The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him.

⁸ The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.

⁹ Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever.

13 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

² And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.

³ And he returned by the way that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai:

⁴ In the place of the altar which he had made before; and there he called upon the name of the Lord.

⁵ But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.

⁶ Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together.

⁷ Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.

¹⁴ And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west.

¹⁵ All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

¹⁶ And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

¹⁷ Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.

¹⁸ So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

² Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

³ For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God; and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.

⁴ Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more,

⁵ Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee:

⁶ According to zeal, persecuting the church of God; according to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

⁷ But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.

⁸ Furthermore I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ:

⁹ And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God, justice in faith:

¹⁰ That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death,

¹¹ If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from the dead.

¹² Not as though I has already attained, or were already perfect; but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus.