Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁵ Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil:

¹⁶ That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

¹⁷ But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:

¹⁸ I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

²⁰ And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.

¹⁵ He added his commandments and precepts.

¹⁶ If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable fidelity for ever, they shall preserve thee.

¹⁷ He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt.

¹⁸ Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall choose shall be given him:

¹⁹ For the wisdom of God is great, and he is strong in power, seeing all men without ceasing.

²⁰ The eyes of the Lord are towards them that fear him, and he knoweth all the work of man.

119 In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.

² O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

³ What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?

⁴ The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of cedar:

⁶ My soul hath been long a sojourner.

⁷ With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.

² I gave you milk to drink, not meat; for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able; for you are yet carnal.

³ For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal, and walk according to man?

⁴ For while one saith, I indeed am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollo; are you not men? What then is Apollo, and what is Paul?

⁵ The ministers of him whom you have believed; and to every one as the Lord hath given.

⁶ I have planted, Apollo watered, but God gave the increase.

⁷ Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

⁸ Now he that planteth, and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.

⁹ For we are God's coadjutors: you are God's husbandry; you are God's building.

²¹ You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.

²² But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou Fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

²³ If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath any thing against thee;

²⁴ Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother: and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift.

²⁵ Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

²⁶ Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.

²⁷ You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

²⁸ But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

²⁹ And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

³⁰ And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

³¹ And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.

³² But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

³³ Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, Thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.

³⁴ But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God:

³⁵ Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king:

³⁶ Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

³⁷ But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.