Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹³ In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst.

¹⁴ They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more.

9 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.

² Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

³ And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them away from thence: and though they hide themselves from my eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall bite them.

⁴ And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

2 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:

² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

³ And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

⁴ He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

⁵ But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected; and by this we know that we are in him.

⁶ He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk, even as he walked.