Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

BETH.

⁹ ¶ With what shall a young man cleanse his way? when he shall keep thy word.

¹⁰ ¶ With my whole heart I have sought thee; O let me not err from thy commandments.

¹¹ ¶ Thy spoken word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.

¹² ¶ Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

¹³ ¶ With my lips I have declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

¹⁴ I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as above all riches.

¹⁵ I will meditate in thy precepts and consider thy ways.

¹⁶ I will delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy words.

⁸ ¶ Bring forth the people that is blind that have eyes and the deaf that have ears.

⁹ Let all the Gentiles be gathered together as one, and let the peoples be joined; who among them can declare this and show us former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses that they may be justified or let them hear and say, It is truth.

¹⁰ Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my slave whom I have chosen that ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

¹¹ I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

¹² I have declared and have saved, and I have showed when there was no strange god among you; therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.

¹³ Even before the day was I existed; and there is no one that can deliver out of my hand; if I work, who shall hinder it?

⁴ And such trust we have through the Christ towards God:

⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

⁶ ¶ who also has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

⁷ But if the ministry of death in the letter engraved in stones was glorious, so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which glory was to fade away,

⁸ How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be for greater glory?

⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, much more shall the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

¹⁰ For even that which was so glorious had no glory in this respect, in comparison with the glory that excels.

¹¹ For if that which fades away was glorious, much more shall that which remains be glorious.