Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

17 And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

² And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

³ And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

⁴ It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

⁵ And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

⁶ And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

¹⁵ And God said to Abraham, [As to] Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.

²³ Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel.

²⁴ For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him: but when he cried unto him, he heard.

²⁵ My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee:

²⁸ For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the nations.

²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

³⁰ A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

³¹ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [it].

¹³ For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

¹⁵ For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

¹⁷ (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

¹⁸ who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

¹⁹ and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

²⁰ and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹ and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

²² wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

²³ Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

²⁴ but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,

²⁵ who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

³¹ And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and of the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise [again].

³² And he spoke the thing openly. And Peter, taking him to [him], began to rebuke him.

³³ But he, turning round and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Get away behind me, Satan, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.

³⁴ And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.

³⁵ For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

³⁷ for what should a man give in exchange for his soul?

³⁸ For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

² And after six days Jesus takes with [him] Peter and James and John, and takes them up on a high mountain by themselves apart. And he was transfigured before them:

³ and his garments became shining, exceeding white [as snow], such as fuller on earth could not whiten [them].

⁴ And there appeared to them Elias with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

⁵ And Peter answering says to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good that we should be here; and let us make three tabernacles, for thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elias one.

⁶ For he knew not what he should say, for they were filled with fear.

⁷ And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, *This* is my beloved Son: hear him.

⁸ And suddenly having looked around, they no longer saw any one, but Jesus alone with themselves.

⁹ And as they descended from the mountain, he charged them that they should relate to no one what they had seen, unless when the Son of man should be risen from among [the] dead.