Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 11
Refuge in the Lord
For the choir director. Davidic.
1 I have taken refuge in the Lord.(A)
How can you say to me,
“Escape to the mountain like a bird
2 For look, the wicked string the bow;
they put the[b] arrow on the bowstring
to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.(C)
3 When the foundations are destroyed,
what can the righteous do?”(D)
4 The Lord is in His holy temple;(E)
the Lord’s throne is in heaven.(F)
His eyes watch; He examines[c] everyone.
5 The Lord examines the righteous and the wicked.
He hates the lover of violence.(G)
6 He will rain burning coals[d] and sulfur on the wicked;
a scorching wind will be their portion.[e](H)
7 For the Lord is righteous; He loves righteous deeds.
The upright will see His face.(I)
Solomon’s Work Force
13 Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel;(A) the labor force numbered 30,000 men. 14 He sent 10,000 to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. 15 Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,(B) 16 not including his 3,300[a] deputies(C) in charge of the work. They ruled over the people doing the work. 17 The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.(D) 18 So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders,(E) along with the Gebalites,(F) quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple’s construction.
21 submitting to one another
in the fear of Christ.(A)
Wives and Husbands
22 Wives,(B) submit[a](C) to your own husbands(D) as to the Lord, 23 for the husband is the head of the wife(E) as Christ is the head(F) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.(G) 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives,(H) just as Christ loved(I) the church and gave Himself(J) for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.(K) 28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 since we are members of His body.[c]
31 For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,(L)
and the two will become one flesh.(M)[d]
32 This mystery(N) is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
Children and Parents
6 Children, obey(O) your parents as you would the Lord,[e] because this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment[f] with a promise, 3 so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.[g](P)[h] 4 Fathers, don’t stir up anger(Q) in your children, but bring them up in the training(R) and instruction of the Lord.
Slaves and Masters
5 Slaves, obey your human[i] masters(S) with fear and trembling,(T) in the sincerity(U) of your heart, as to Christ. 6 Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will(V) from your heart.[j] 7 Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men,(W) 8 knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord. 9 And masters, treat your slaves the same way, without threatening(X) them, because you know that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism(Y) with Him.(Z)
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