Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

[A Psalm] of David.

26 Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity, and I have confided in Jehovah: I shall not slip.

² Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:

³ For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth.

⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;

⁵ I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,

⁷ That I may cause the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and declare all thy marvellous works.

⁸ Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

⁹ Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood;

¹⁰ In whose hands are evil devices, and their right hand is full of bribes.

¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity. Redeem me, and be gracious unto me.

¹² My foot standeth in an even place; in the congregations will I bless Jehovah.

4 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

² If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?

³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands;

⁴ Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:

⁵ But now it is come upon thee, and thou grievest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

⁶ Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

⁸ Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.

⁹ By the breath of +God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed.

¹⁰ The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;

¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

¹² Now to me a word was secretly brought, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.

¹³ In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:—

¹⁴ Fear came on me, and trembling, and made all my bones to shake;

¹⁵ And a spirit passed before my face—the hair of my flesh stood up—

¹⁶ It stood still; I could not discern the appearance thereof: a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and a voice:

¹⁷ Shall [mortal] man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

¹⁸ Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:

¹⁹ How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!

²⁰ From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

²¹ Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

8 [There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.

⁵ For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

⁶ For the mind of the flesh [is] death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

⁸ and they that are in flesh cannot please God.

⁹ But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not [the] Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him:

¹⁰ but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

¹¹ But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among [the] dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.