Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

² Because he has inclined his ear unto me, therefore I will call upon him all of my days.

¹² What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

¹³ I will take the cup of saving health and invoke the name of the LORD.

¹⁴ I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his merciful ones.

¹⁶ This is so, O LORD, because I am thy slave; I am thy slave, the son of thine handmaid; thou hast loosed my bonds.

¹⁷ I will offer unto thee the sacrifice of praise and will invoke the name of the LORD.

¹⁸ I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,

¹⁹ in the courts of the LORD’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Halelu-JAH.

21 ¶ And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did with Sarah as he had spoken.

² For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

³ And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old as God had commanded him.

⁵ And Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him.

⁶ Then Sarah said, God has made me to laugh so that all that hear will laugh with me.

⁷ And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? For I have born him a son in his old age.

3 ¶ Therefore, brethren, saints, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

² who was faithful to him that appointed him over all his house, as also Moses was faithful.

³ For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honour than the house.

⁴ For every house is built by someone, but he that created all things is God.

⁵ And Moses verily was faithful over all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after,

⁶ but Christ as a son over his own house, which house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorious hope firmly until the end.