Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁵ Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him shall ye hearken;

¹⁶ according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

¹⁷ And Jehovah said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

¹⁸ A prophet will I raise up unto them from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

¹⁹ And it shall come to pass that the man who hearkeneth not unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

²⁰ But the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.

111 Hallelujah! I will celebrate Jehovah with [my] whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the assembly.

² Great are the works of Jehovah; sought out of all that delight in them.

³ His work is majesty and splendour, and his righteousness abideth for ever.

⁴ He hath made his wonders to be remembered: Jehovah is gracious and merciful.

⁵ He hath given meat unto them that fear him; he is ever mindful of his covenant.

⁶ He hath shewn his people the power of his works, to give them the heritage of the nations.

⁷ The works of his hands are truth and judgment; all his precepts are faithful:

⁸ Maintained for ever and ever, done in truth and uprightness.

⁹ He sent deliverance unto his people; he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and terrible is his name.

¹⁰ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do [his precepts]: his praise abideth for ever.

8 But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

² If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].

³ But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):

⁴ —concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one.

⁵ For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

⁶ yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and *we* by him.

⁷ But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁸ But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

⁹ But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

¹⁰ For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

¹¹ and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

¹² Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

¹³ Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

²¹ And they go into Capernaum. And straightway on the sabbath he entered into the synagogue and taught.

²² And they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

²³ And there was in their synagogue a man [possessed] by an unclean spirit, and he cried out

²⁴ saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God.

²⁵ And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace and come out of him.

²⁶ And the unclean spirit, having torn him, and uttered a cry with a loud voice, came out of him.

²⁷ And all were amazed, so that they questioned together among themselves, saying, What is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.

²⁸ And his fame went out straightway into the whole region of Galilee around.