Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples.

² Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; speak of all his wondrous works.

³ Glory in his holy name; let the heart of those that seek the LORD rejoice.

⁴ Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face continually.

⁵ Remember his marvellous works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his slave, ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

⁷ He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ ¶ He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generations,

⁹ which covenant he made with Abraham and his oath unto Isaac

¹⁰ and confirmed the same unto Jacob by decree, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

¹¹ Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,

⁴⁵ that they might observe his statutes and keep his laws. Halelu-JAH.

29 ¶ Then Jacob walked on and came into the land of the people of the east.

² And he looked and saw a well in the field, and, behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.

³ And all the flocks gathered there; and they would roll the stone from the well’s mouth and water the sheep and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in its place.

⁴ And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, where are you from? And they said, We are from Haran.

⁵ And he said unto them, Do you know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

⁶ And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and, behold, Rachel, his daughter, comes with the sheep.

⁷ And he said, behold, it is yet high day; neither is it time that the livestock should be gathered together; water the sheep and go and feed them.

⁸ And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and until they roll the stone from the well’s mouth, that we may water the sheep.

¹⁴ ¶ I do not write these things to shame you, but to warn you, as to my beloved sons.

¹⁵ For though ye may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye shall not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

¹⁶ Therefore, I beseech you that ye imitate me.

¹⁷ ¶ For this cause I have sent Timothy unto you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

¹⁸ Now some are puffed up as though I will never come to you.

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the virtue.

²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in virtue.