Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴ ¶ And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

⁵ And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

⁶ And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

⁷ Then the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against thee; pray unto the LORD that he take away these serpents from among us. And Moses prayed for the people.

⁸ And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent and lift it up as a banner, and it shall be that anyone that is bitten and looks upon it shall live.

⁹ And Moses made a serpent of brass and put it up as a banner, and it came to pass that when a serpent bit anyone, he beheld the serpent of brass, and lived.

¹ ¶ O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.

² Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

³ and gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

¹⁷ ¶ The fools, because of the way of their rebellion, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near unto the gates of death.

¹⁹ Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

²⁰ He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their graves.

²¹ Oh that men would praise the LORD for his mercy and for his wonderful works unto the sons of Adam!

²² And let them offer the sacrifices of praise and publish his works with singing.

2 ¶ And he has made you alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

² in which in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the will of the prince of the power of this air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience,

³ among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as all the others.

⁴ ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great charity with which he loved us,

⁵ even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)

⁶ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

⁷ That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.

¹⁴ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up,

¹⁵ that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

¹⁸ He that believes on him is not condemned, but he that does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than the light because their deeds were evil.

²⁰ For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

²¹ But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.