Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁵ Jehovah, thy loving-kindness is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds.

⁶ Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

⁷ How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God! So the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

⁸ They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

⁹ For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

¹⁰ Continue thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart;

¹⁹ And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following me.

²⁰ Surely [as] a woman treacherously departeth from her companion, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.

²¹ A voice is heard upon the heights, the weeping supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

²² —Return, backsliding children; I will heal your backslidings. … Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.

²³ Truly in vain [is salvation looked for] from the hills, [and] the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

²⁴ But shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

²⁵ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God.

7 But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman;

² but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.

³ Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

⁴ The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

⁶ But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it].

⁷ Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.