Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

46 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

² Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea,

³ though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah

⁴ There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

⁵ God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, and that right early.

⁶ The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

⁷ The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

⁸ Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made on the earth.

⁹ He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot with fire.

¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted on the earth.

¹¹ The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.

² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will 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 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him, and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and 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 substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶ And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

⁷ And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said, “Unto thy seed will I give this land.” And there built he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

⁸ And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

⁹ And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

¹⁷ But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

¹⁸ Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called, being uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God.

²⁰ Let every man abide in the same calling as when he was called.

²¹ Art thou a servant when called? Be not concerned; but if thou mayest be made free, then make use of it.

²² For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman; likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.

²³ Ye are bought with a price; be ye not the servants of men.

²⁴ Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.