Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

14 A psalm of David. Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest in thy holy hill?

² He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

³ He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.

⁴ In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not;

⁵ He that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes against the innocent: He that doth these things shall not be moved for ever.

²⁰ Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?

²¹ What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour?

²² And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled.

²³ If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil.

²⁴ And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.

²⁵ This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood.

²⁶ Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared.

²⁷ I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope:

² To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise,

⁴ Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies: which furnish questions rather than the edification of God, which is in faith.

⁵ Now the end of the commandment is charity, from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

⁶ From which things some going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling:

⁷ Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.

⁸ But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully:

⁹ Knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly, and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

¹⁰ For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine,

¹¹ Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which hath been committed to my trust.