Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.

46 God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.

² Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas;

³ Though the waters thereof roar [and] foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

⁴ There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.

⁵ God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.

⁶ The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

⁷ Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.

⁸ Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth:

⁹ He hath made wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots in the fire.

¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

¹¹ Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.

12 And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

² And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.

³ And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

⁴ And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

⁵ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶ And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

⁷ And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.

⁸ And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

⁹ And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

¹⁷ However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.

¹⁸ Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God's commandments.

²⁰ Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.

²¹ Hast thou been called [being] a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.

²² For the bondman that is called in [the] Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner [also] the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.

²³ Ye have been bought with a price; do not be the bondmen of men.

²⁴ Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God.