Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

3 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

² Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

³ So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.

⁴ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed.

⁵ ¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

¹⁰ And God saw their works, because they turned from their evil way, and he repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did not do it.

⁵ My soul, rest thou only in God, for my hope is from him.

⁶ He only is my rock and my saving health; he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

⁷ In God is my saving health and my glory; the rock of my strength and my refuge is in God.

⁸ ¶ Wait in him at all times; ye peoples, pour out your heart before him; God is our refuge. Selah.

⁹ Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

¹⁰ Trust not in violence and become not vain in the taking of spoil; if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

¹¹ God has spoken once; twice have I heard this that power belongs unto God.

¹² Also unto thee, O Lord, belongs mercy, for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

²⁹ But this I say, brothers, the time is short; for the rest, let those that have wives be as though they had none;

³⁰ and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;

³¹ and those that use this world, as not using it as their own, for the fashion of this world passes away.

¹⁴ ¶ Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God

¹⁵ and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye and believe the gospel.

¹⁶ Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers.

¹⁷ And Jesus said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

¹⁸ And straightway they forsook their nets and followed him.

¹⁹ And when he had gone a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.

²⁰ And straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went after him.