Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

To the choirmaster. Of David.

¹³ King Solomon drafted ^(A)forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. ¹⁴ And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. ^(B)Adoniram was in charge of the draft. ¹⁵ Solomon also ^(C)had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, ¹⁶ besides Solomon's 3,300 ^(D)chief officers who were over the work, ^(E)who had charge of the people who carried on the work. ¹⁷ At the king's command ^(F)they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. ¹⁸ So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and ^(G)the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

^21 (A)submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives and Husbands

^22 (B)Wives, ^(C)submit to your own husbands, ^(D)as to the Lord. ²³ For ^(E)the husband is the head of the wife even as ^(F)Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is ^(G)himself its Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit ^(H)in everything to their husbands.

^25 (I)Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and ^(J)gave himself up for her, ²⁶ that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by ^(K)the washing of water ^(L)with the word, ²⁷ so ^(M)that he might present the church to himself in splendor, ^(N)without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.^{[a] 28} In the same way ^(O)husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰ because ^(P)we are members of his body. ^31 (Q)“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and ^(R)the two shall become one flesh.” ³² This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. ³³ However, ^(S)let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she ^(T)respects her husband.

Children and Parents

6 ^(U)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ^2 (V)“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), ³ “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” ⁴ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, ^(W)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Bondservants and Masters

^5 (X)Bondservants,^[b] obey your earthly masters^[c] with fear and trembling, ^(Y)with a sincere heart, ^(Z)as you would Christ, ⁶ not by the way of eye-service, as ^(AA)people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, ⁷ rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, ^8 (AB)knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, ^(AC)whether he is a bondservant or is free. ⁹ Masters, do the same to them, ^(AD)and stop your threatening, knowing that ^(AE)he who is both their Master^[d] and yours is in heaven, and that ^(AF)there is no partiality with him.