Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹ And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

¹⁰ and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark—every animal of the earth.

¹¹ And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.

¹² And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:

¹³ I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁴ And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

¹⁵ and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

[A Psalm] of David.

25 Unto thee, Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.

² My God, I confide in thee; let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

³ Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

⁴ Make me to know thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me thy paths.

⁵ Make me to walk in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

⁶ Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore will he instruct sinners in the way:

⁹ The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way.

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

¹⁸ for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,

¹⁹ in which also going he preached to the spirits [which are] in prison,

²⁰ heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in [the] days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

²¹ which figure also now saves you, [even] baptism, not a putting away of [the] filth of flesh, but [the] demand as before God of a good conscience, by [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ,

²² who is at [the] right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to him.

⁹ And it came to pass in those days [that] Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John at the Jordan.

¹⁰ And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him.

¹¹ And there came a voice out of the heavens: *Thou* art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.

¹² And immediately the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness.

¹³ And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.

¹⁴ But after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom of God,

¹⁵ and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings.