Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

19 Unto the end. A psalm for David.

² May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.

³ May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee out of Sion.

⁴ May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole burnt offering be made fat.

⁵ May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy counsels.

⁶ We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we shall be exalted.

⁷ The Lord fulfill all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is in powers.

⁸ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God.

⁹ They are bound, and have fallen; but we are risen, and are set upright. O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.

¹⁴ Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.

¹⁵ Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.

¹⁶ And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field.

¹⁷ Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.

¹⁹ Thou shalt carry the firstfruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

¹⁴ And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations;

¹⁵ That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world.

¹⁶ Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ, because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

¹⁷ Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and congratulate with you all.

¹⁸ And for the selfsame thing do you also rejoice, and congratulate with me.

3 As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you it is necessary.

² Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

³ For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God; and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.

⁴ Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more,