Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Song of degrees of David.

¹ ¶ If the LORD had not been for us, now may Israel say,

² If the LORD had not been for us, when men rose up against us,

³ then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

⁴ then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the flood would have gone over our soul;

⁵ then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

⁶ ¶ Blessed be the LORD, who did not give us as a prey to their teeth.

⁷ Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has broken, and we are escaped.

⁸ Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made the heaven and the earth.

8 ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters ceased;

² the fountains also of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

³ and the waters turned back and forth upon the earth, and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

⁴ ¶ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ ¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

⁷ and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

⁸ Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground,

⁹ but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were still upon the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

¹⁰ And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark,

¹¹ and the dove came in to him in the evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

¹² And he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.

¹³ ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year of Noah, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

¹⁵ ¶ And God spoke unto Noah, saying,

¹⁶ Go forth from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

¹⁷ Bring forth with thee every animal that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and of beasts and of every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

¹⁸ And Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him;

¹⁹ all the animals, every creature and every fowl and whatever moves upon the earth after their kinds went forth out of the ark.

6 ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

² No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?

³ Know ye not that all of us that are baptized into Jesus the Christ are baptized into his death?

⁴ For we are buried with him by baptism into death, that just as the Christ was raised up from the dead to the glory of the Father, likewise we also walk in newness of life.

⁵ For if we have been planted together in him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection,

⁶ knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer.

⁷ For he that is dead is justified from sin.

⁸ Now if we die with the Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

⁹ knowing that the Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.

¹⁰ For he that is dead died unto sin once, and he that lives, lives unto God.

¹¹ Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.