Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.

11 In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?

² For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.

³ If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?

⁴ Jehovah [is] in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah,—his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

⁵ Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright.

¹³ And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

¹⁴ And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.

¹⁵ And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;

¹⁶ besides the overseers whom Solomon had set over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

¹⁷ And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

¹⁸ And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Giblites hewed them, and prepared timber and stones to build the house.

²¹ submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of Christ.

²² Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

²³ for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly. *He* [is] Saviour of the body.

²⁴ But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

²⁶ in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the washing of water by [the] word,

²⁷ that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.

²⁸ So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

²⁹ For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

³⁰ for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]

³¹ Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

³² This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.

³³ But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear the husband.

6 Children, obey your parents in [the] Lord, for this is just.

² Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

³ that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth.

⁴ And [ye] fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in [the] discipline and admonition of [the] Lord.

⁵ Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;

⁶ not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from [the] soul,

⁷ serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;

⁸ knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of [the] Lord, whether bond or free.

⁹ And, masters, do the same things towards them, giving up threatening, knowing that both their and your Master is in heaven, and there is no acceptance of persons with him.