Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁷ Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah [with] the seed of man and the seed of beast.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass, as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to overthrow, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build, and to plant, saith Jehovah.

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge:

³⁰ for every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

³¹ Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.

³³ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

⁹⁷ MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

⁹⁸ Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.

⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.

¹⁰¹ I have refrained my feet from every evil path, that I might keep thy word.

¹⁰² I have not departed from thy judgments; for it is thou that hast taught me.

¹⁰³ How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!

¹⁰⁴ From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path.

¹⁴ But *thou*, abide in those things which thou hast learned, and [of which] thou hast been fully persuaded, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them];

¹⁵ and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which [is] in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ Every scripture [is] divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;

¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.

4 I testify before God and Christ Jesus, who is about to judge living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

² proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.

³ For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;

⁴ and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

⁵ But *thou*, be sober in all things, bear evils, do [the] work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry.

18 And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,

² saying, There was a judge in a city, not fearing God and not respecting man:

³ and there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adverse party.

⁴ And he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within himself, If even I fear not God and respect not man,

⁵ at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.

⁶ And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says.

⁷ And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

⁸ I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?