Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁷ Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of beasts.

²⁸ And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

³⁰ But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

³¹ Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

³² Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

¹⁴ But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned, and which have been committed to thee: knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

¹⁵ And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice,

¹⁷ That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.

4 I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom:

² Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

³ For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:

⁴ And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

⁵ But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry. Be sober.

18 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray, and not to faint,

² Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God, nor regarded man.

³ And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.

⁴ And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor regard man,

⁵ Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.

⁶ And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.

⁷ And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard?

⁸ I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?