Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

ALEPH.

¹ ¶ Blessed are those who walk in the perfect way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

² Blessed are those that keep his testimonies and that seek him with their whole heart.

³ For those who do no iniquity walk in his ways.

⁴ ¶ Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

⁵ O that my ways were ordered to keep thy statutes!

⁶ Then I shall not be ashamed, when I have insight unto all thy commandments.

⁷ ¶ I will praise thee with uprightness of heart when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

⁸ I will keep thy statutes; O do not utterly forsake me.

26 ¶ And there was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.

² And the LORD appeared unto him and said, Do not go down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of;

³ abide in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will confirm the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;

⁴ and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these lands, and in thy seed shall all the Gentiles of the earth be blessed

⁵ because Abraham hearkened unto my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

¹² Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

¹³ ¶ Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt anyone:

¹⁴ But each one is tempted, when they are drawn away of their own lust and enticed.

¹⁵ Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

¹⁶ Do not err, my beloved brethren.