Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

² The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion; rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

³ Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauty of holiness; as the dew which falls from the womb of the morning, thus shall those who are thine be born unto thee.

⁴ The LORD has sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

⁵ ¶ The Lord at thy right hand shall smite the kings in the day of his wrath.

⁶ He shall judge among the Gentiles; he shall fill their places with dead bodies; he shall wound the head over much of the earth.

⁷ He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore he shall lift up his head.

3 ¶ My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments:

² For they shall add length of days and long life and peace unto thee.

³ Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck; write them upon the tablet of thine heart:

⁴ So shalt thou find grace and good favour in the sight of God and man.

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.

⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

⁷ ¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear the LORD and depart from evil.

⁸ It shall be medicine to thy navel and marrow to thy bones.

⁹ Honour the LORD with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

¹⁰ So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

¹¹ My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

¹² For the LORD chastens whom he loves and delights in, even as a father to his son.

¹¹ ¶ Murmur not against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a keeper of the law, but a judge.

¹² There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou to judge another?

¹³ Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;

¹⁴ and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

¹⁵ Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that.

¹⁶ But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.

¹⁷ Therefore sin is still in the one that knows to do good and does not do it.