Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
8 Bless our God, you peoples,
And [a](A)sound His praise abroad,
9 Who [b](B)keeps us in life,
And (C)does not allow our feet to [c]slip.
10 For You have (D)put us to the test, God;
You have (E)refined us as silver is refined.
11 You (F)brought us into the net;
You laid an oppressive burden upon [d]us.
12 You made men (G)ride over our heads;
We went through (H)fire and through water.
Yet You (I)brought us out into a place of abundance.
13 I shall (J)come into Your house with burnt offerings;
I shall (K)pay You my vows,
14 Which my lips uttered
And my mouth spoke when I was (L)in distress.
15 I shall (M)offer to You burnt offerings of fat animals,
With the smoke of (N)rams;
I shall make an offering of [e]bulls with male goats. Selah
16 (O)Come and hear, all who [f]fear God,
And I will (P)tell of what He has done for my soul.
17 I cried to Him with my mouth,
And [g]He was (Q)exalted with my tongue.
18 If I [h](R)regard wickedness in my heart,
The (S)Lord will not hear;
19 But (T)God has heard;
He has given attention to the sound of my prayer.
20 (U)Blessed be God,
Who (V)has not turned away my prayer
Nor His favor from me.
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of mankind was great on the earth, and that (A)every intent of the thoughts of [a]their hearts was only evil continually. 6 So (B)the Lord was sorry that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was (C)grieved [b]in His heart. 7 Then the Lord said, “(D)I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, and animals as well, and crawling things, and the birds of the sky. For (E)I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But (F)Noah (G)found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a (H)righteous man, [c](I)blameless in his generation. Noah (J)walked with God. 10 And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was (K)corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was (L)filled with violence. 12 And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for [d](M)humanity had corrupted its way upon the earth.
13 Then God said to Noah, “(N)The end of [e]humanity has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of [f]people; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. 14 Make for yourself an ark of [g]gopher wood; you shall make the ark with compartments, and [h]cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be [i]three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16 You shall make a [j]window for the ark, and finish it to a [k]cubit from [l]the top; and put the door of the ark on the side; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 Now behold, (O)I Myself am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. 18 But I will establish (P)My covenant with you; and (Q)you shall enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19 (R)And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20 (S)Of the birds according to their kind, and of the animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21 As for you, take for yourself some of every (T)food that is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and them.” 22 (U)So Noah did these things; according to everything that God had commanded him, so he did.
Paul Is Sent to Rome
27 Now when it was decided that (A)we (B)would sail for (C)Italy, they proceeded to turn Paul and some other prisoners over to a centurion of the Augustan [a](D)cohort, named Julius. 2 And we boarded an Adramyttian ship that was about to sail to the regions along the coast of [b](E)Asia, and put out to sea accompanied by (F)Aristarchus, a (G)Macedonian of (H)Thessalonica. 3 The next day we put in at (I)Sidon; and Julius (J)treated Paul with consideration and (K)allowed him to go to his friends and receive care. 4 From there we put out to sea and sailed under the shelter of (L)Cyprus, because (M)the winds were contrary. 5 When we had sailed through the sea along the coast of (N)Cilicia and (O)Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia. 6 There the centurion found an (P)Alexandrian ship sailing for (Q)Italy, and he put us aboard it. 7 When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, (R)since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of (S)Crete, off Salmone; 8 and with difficulty (T)sailing past it, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.
9 When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even (U)the [c]fast was already over, Paul started admonishing them, 10 saying to them, “Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with (V)damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.” 11 But the centurion was more persuaded by the (W)pilot and the [d]captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul. 12 The harbor was not suitable for wintering, so the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of (X)Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.
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