Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
114 1 How the Israelites were delivered forth of Egypt, and of the wonderful miracles that God wrought at that time. Which put us in remembrance of God’s great mercy toward his Church, who when the course of nature faileth, preserveth his miraculously.
1 When (A)Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of Jacob from the [a]barbarous people,
2 Judah was his [b]sanctification, and Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was turned back.
4 The [c]mountains leaped like rams, and the hills as lambs!
5 What ailed thee, O sea, that thou fleddest? O Jordan, why wast thou turned back?
6 Ye mountains why leaped ye like rams, and ye hills as lambs?
7 The [d]earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 Which [e]turneth the rock into waterpools, and the flint into a fountain of water.
36 Then Gideon said unto God, [a]If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the threshing place: if the dew come on the fleece only and it be dry upon all the earth, then shall I be sure, that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
38 And so it was: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, and filled a bowl of water.
39 Again, Gideon said unto God, Be not angry with me, that (A)I may speak once more: let me prove once again, I pray thee, with the fleece: let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and let dew be upon all the ground.
40 And God did so the same night: for it was [b]dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
12 ¶ [a]Now if it be preached, that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 [b]For if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14 [c]And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 And we are found also false witnesses of God: for we have testified of God, that he hath raised up Christ: whom he hath not raised up, if so be the dead be not raised.
16 [d]For if the dead be not raised, then is Christ not raised.
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain: [e]ye are [f]yet in your sins.
18 [g]And so they which are asleep in Christ, are perished.
19 [h]If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.
20 [i]But now is Christ risen from the dead, [j]and was made the (A)[k]firstfruits of them that slept.
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