Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

22 ¶ And it came to pass after these things that God proved Abraham and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Behold, here I am.

² And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou dost love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

³ ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son, and cut the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him.

⁴ Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.

⁵ And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you.

⁶ And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac, his son; and he took the fire in his hand and the knife; and they both went together.

⁷ Then Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father and said, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?

⁸ And Abraham answered, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering, so they both went together.

⁹ And when they came to the place which God had told him of, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

¹⁰ And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

¹¹ ¶ Then the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

¹² And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou doest fear God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

¹³ And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and beheld behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Shall See (YHWH-jireh). Therefore it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

³ Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,

⁴ lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

⁵ But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

⁶ I will sing unto the LORD because he has dealt bountifully with me.

¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

¹³ Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

¹⁴ So that sin shall have no dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? No, in no wise.

¹⁶ Or know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves slaves to obey, his slaves ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of the obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷ Thank God that, although ye were the slaves of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine unto which ye are delivered;

¹⁸ and freed from sin, ye are become the slaves of righteousness.

¹⁹ I speak a human thing because of the weakness of our flesh: that as ye presented your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity, likewise now present your members to serve righteousness unto holiness.

²⁰ For being previously the slaves of sin, now ye have been made the slaves of righteousness.

²¹ What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

²² But now freed from sin and made slaves to God, ye have as your fruit sanctification and as the end, everlasting life.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁴⁰ He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.

⁴¹ He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward, and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

⁴² And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.