Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

[A Psalm] of David.

27 Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

² When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

³ If a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; if war rise against me, in this will I be confident.

⁴ One [thing] have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire [of him] in his temple.

⁵ For in the day of evil he will hide me in his pavilion; in the secret of his tent will he keep me concealed: he will set me high upon a rock.

⁶ And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tent sacrifices of shouts of joy: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms unto Jehovah.

⁷ Hear, Jehovah; with my voice do I call; be gracious unto me, and answer me.

⁸ My heart said for thee, Seek ye my face. Thy face, O Jehovah, will I seek.

⁹ Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹⁰ For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.

¹¹ Teach me thy way, Jehovah, and lead me in an even path, because of mine enemies.

¹² Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.

¹³ Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living …!

¹⁴ Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.

13 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, towards the south.

² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

³ And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai;

⁴ to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

⁵ And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents.

⁶ And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together, for their property was great; and they could not dwell together.

⁷ And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.

¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

¹⁵ for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

¹⁶ And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered.

¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land according to the length of it and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.

¹⁸ Then Abram moved [his] tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah.

² See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.

³ For *we* are the circumcision, who worship by [the] Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.

⁴ Though *I* have [my] trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, *I* rather:

⁵ as to circumcision, [I received it] the eighth day; of [the] race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee;

⁶ as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which [is] in [the] law, found blameless;

⁷ but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.

⁸ But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

⁹ and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which [would be] on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which [is] of God through faith,

¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

¹¹ if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among [the] dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained [the prize], or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession [of it], seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].