Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

11 In the Lord I put my trust; how say ye to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain,

² for lo, the wicked bend their bow and make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart;

³ if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

⁴ The Lord is in His holy temple! The Lord’S throne is in heaven! His eyes behold; His eyelids test the children of men!

⁵ The Lord trieth the righteous; but the wicked and him that loveth violence, His soul hateth.

⁶ Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; His countenance doth behold the upright.

¹³ And King Solomon raised a tribute of men out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

¹⁴ And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.

¹⁵ And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand who bore burdens and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains,

¹⁶ besides the chief of Solomon’s officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who wrought in the work.

¹⁷ And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

¹⁸ And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the stone squarers hewed them. So they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

²¹ submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord;

²³ for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and He is the savior of the body.

²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

²⁶ that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

²⁷ that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He hat loveth his wife loveth himself.

²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.

³⁰ For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.

³¹ “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”

³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

³³ Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

² “Honor thy father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise:

³ “that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”

⁴ And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

⁵ Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ,

⁶ not with eyeservice as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

⁷ with good will doing service, as to the Lord and not to men,

⁸ knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

⁹ And ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening, knowing that your Master also is in Heaven; neither is there respect of persons with Him.