Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of David.

Aleph

¹ ¶ Do not be angry with the evildoers, neither be thou envious of the workers of iniquity.

² For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb.

Beth

³ Wait in the LORD and do good; live in the land and uphold the truth.

⁴ In the same manner delight thyself in the LORD, and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart.

Gimel

⁵ Turn thy way unto the LORD and wait in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

⁶ And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy uprightness as the noonday.

Daleth

⁷ ¶ Be silent before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not be angry with him who prospers in his way, with the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

He

⁸ Cease from anger and forsake wrath: let not thy wrath in any wise cause you to become evil.

⁹ For evildoers shall be cut off; but those that wait for the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

Vau

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be; thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

¹¹ But the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Tau

³⁹ But the salvation of the righteous is the LORD; he is their strength in the time of trouble.

⁴⁰ And the LORD helped them and delivers them; he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they wait in him.

¹⁶ And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home and slay an animal and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.

¹⁷ And the man did as Joseph bade, and the man brought the men into Joseph’s house.

¹⁸ And the men were afraid because they were brought into Joseph’s house, and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time we are brought in here that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us and take us for slaves and our asses.

¹⁹ And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke with him at the door of the house

²⁰ and said, my lord, we came indeed down the first time to buy food;

²¹ and it came to pass when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it again in our hand.

²² And we brought down other money in our hands to buy food; we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

²³ And he said, Peace be to you, fear not; your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

²⁴ And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house and gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave their asses fodder.

²⁵ And they made ready the present waiting until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

²⁶ ¶ And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which they had in their hand in the house and bowed themselves to him to the earth.

²⁷ And he asked them of their welfare and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?

²⁸ And they answered, Thy slave our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads and made obeisance.

²⁹ And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spoke unto me? And he said, God be merciful unto thee, my son.

³⁰ Then Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep, and he entered into his chamber and wept there.

³¹ And he washed his face and went out and refrained himself and said, Serve bread.

³² And they served for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, who ate with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians may not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

³³ And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men marvelled one at another.

³⁴ And he took and sent portions unto them from before him; but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were drunk with him.

8 ¶ So that now, there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ, Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ, Jesus, has made me free from the law of sin and death.

³ For that which was impossible to the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh

⁴ that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

⁵ For those that are according to the flesh know the things that are of the flesh; but those that are according to the Spirit, the things that are of the Spirit.

⁶ For the prudence of the flesh is death, but the prudence of the Spirit, life and peace,

⁷ because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

⁸ So then, those that are carnal cannot please God.

⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, because the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, that person is not of him.

¹⁰ ¶ But if Christ is in you, the body is truly dead because of sin, but the Spirit is alive because of righteousness.

¹¹ And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up the Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.