Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon Shoshannim (lilies), A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

² I sink in deep mire where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

³ I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴ Those that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored that which I did not take away.

⁵ O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hid from thee.

³⁰ ¶ I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with praises.

³¹ This also shall please the LORD better than the sacrifice of an ox or bullock that struggles with horns and hoofs.

³² The humble shall see this and be glad; seek God and thy heart shall live.

³³ For the LORD hears the destitute and does not despise his prisoners.

³⁴ Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves in them.

³⁵ For God will protect Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; they shall dwell there and inherit it.

³⁶ The seed of his slaves shall inherit it, and those that love his name shall dwell therein.

17 ¶ And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me and be thou perfect.

² And I will make my covenant between me and thee and will multiply thee exceedingly.

³ And Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

⁴ ¶ Behold my covenant with thee: Thou shalt be a father of many Gentiles.

⁵ Neither shall thy name any longer be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many Gentiles have I made thee.

⁶ And I will multiply thee exceeding, and I will make Gentiles of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

⁷ ¶ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.

⁸ And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee, the land in which thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting inheritance; and I will be their God.

⁹ And God said again unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.

¹⁰ This shall be my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

¹¹ And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token of the covenant between me and you.

¹² And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male in your generations, he that is born in the house or bought with money of any stranger, who is not of thy seed.

¹³ He that is born in thy house and he that is bought with thy money must needs be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

4 ¶ What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?

² For if Abraham were justified by works, he has reason to glory in himself, but not before God.

³ For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

⁴ But unto him that works, the reward is not reckoned as grace, but as debt.

⁵ But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the faith is counted as righteousness.

⁶ Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto whom God doth attribute righteousness without works,

⁷ saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.

⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin.

⁹ ¶ Is this blessedness, therefore, only upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

¹⁰ How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹ And he received the circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised believers, that it might be counted unto them also as righteousness,

¹² that he be the father of the circumcision: not only to those who are of the circumcision, but also unto those who walk in the steps of the faith that was in our father Abraham before he was circumcised.