Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

² Judah was his holiness, and Israel his dominion.

³ The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs.

⁵ What came upon thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee? And thou O Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

⁶ Ye mountains, why didst ye skip like rams and ye little hills, like lambs?

⁷ At the presence of the Lord, the earth trembles, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ who turned the rock into a reservoir of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

³⁶ And Gideon said unto God, Wilt thou save Israel by my hand as thou hast said?

³⁷ Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the threshing floor; and if the dew is on the fleece only and it is dry upon all the earth beside it, then I shall know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand as thou hast said.

³⁸ And it was so, for he rose up early in the morning, and wringing the fleece, he took the dew out of it, a bowl full of water.

³⁹ But Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me if I speak again on this occasion; only let me prove again now with the fleece. I pray thee, let it be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

⁴⁰ And God did so that night for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

¹² ¶ Now if the Christ is preached that rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither is Christ risen;

¹⁴ and if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.

¹⁵ And we are even found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if it so be that the dead do not rise.

¹⁶ For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not raised either;

¹⁷ and if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; ye are even yet in your sins.

¹⁸ Then those also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have existence in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.

²⁰ ¶ But now Christ is risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of those that slept.