Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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

² Let Israel now say that his mercy endures for ever.

¹⁹ ¶ Open unto me the gates of righteousness; I will go in through them; I will praise JAH.

²⁰ This gate is of the LORD; the righteous shall enter in.

²¹ I will praise thee; for thou hast heard me and art become my saving health.

²² The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner.

²³ This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

²⁴ This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

²⁵ Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, cause us now to prosper.

²⁶ Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD; from the house of the LORD we bless you.

²⁷ God is the LORD, who has shined on us; bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

²⁸ Thou art my God, and I will praise thee; thou art my God, I will exalt thee.

²⁹ O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good, for his mercy endures for ever.

16 ¶ Keep the month of the new fruit, {Heb. of Abib} and thou shalt do the passover unto the LORD thy God; for in the month of the new fruit the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

² Thou shalt, therefore, sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the sheep and the cows, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell therein.

³ Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou didst come forth out of the land of Egypt in haste; that thou may remember the day when thou didst come forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

⁴ And there shall be no leavened bread seen in thee within all thy borders for seven days; neither shall any of the flesh which thou didst sacrifice the evening of the first day remain all night until the morning.

⁵ Thou may not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates (or within any of thy towns) which the LORD thy God gives thee

⁶ but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in; there thou shalt sacrifice the passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time when thou came forth out of Egypt.

⁷ And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, and thou shalt turn in the morning and return unto thy tabernacles.

⁸ Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work in this.

2 ¶ Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

² fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same charity, unanimous, minding the one thing.

³ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in humility let each esteem others better than themselves,

⁴ with each one not looking to their own things, but also to the things of others.

⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,

⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men,

⁸ and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. {Gr. stauros – stake}

⁹ Therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name,

¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth,

¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.