Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁵ ¶ Thus hath the LORD said; Cursed be the man that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from the LORD.

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

⁷ Blessed is the man that is steadfast in the LORD and whose trust is the LORD.

⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out her roots by the river and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green and shall not be fatigued in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it?

¹⁰ I the LORD search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

¹ ¶ Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

² But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.

⁴ ¶ The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶ For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

¹² ¶ Now if the Christ is preached that rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither is Christ risen;

¹⁴ and if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.

¹⁵ And we are even found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if it so be that the dead do not rise.

¹⁶ For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not raised either;

¹⁷ and if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; ye are even yet in your sins.

¹⁸ Then those also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have existence in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.

²⁰ ¶ But now Christ is risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of those that slept.

¹⁷ And he came down with them and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

¹⁸ and those that were tormented with unclean spirits were healed.

¹⁹ And the whole multitude sought to touch him, for there went virtue out of him and healed them all.

²⁰ ¶ And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said, Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

²¹ Blessed are those that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed are those that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

²² Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the sake of the Son of man.

²³ Rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy; for, behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers treated the prophets in the same manner.

²⁴ But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

²⁵ Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

²⁶ Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers treat the false prophets.