Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

124 They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth

² In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.

³ For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

⁴ Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.

⁵ But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

7 My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,

² Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:

³ Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.

⁴ Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,

⁷ But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.

⁸ Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men.

⁹ Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

¹¹ And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors,

¹² For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

¹³ Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ;

¹⁴ That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive.

¹⁵ But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:

¹⁶ From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.