Scripture Reading for the
Common Calendar Year
(beginning January 1st)

August 17

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The Lectionary According to the Common Calendar

Psalm 38

1 O LORD, rebuke me not in Thy wrath,
neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure!
2 For Thine arrows stick fast in me,
and Thy hand presseth me sorely.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh, because of Thine anger;
neither is there any rest in my bones, because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities have gone over mine head;
as a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are foul and corrupt
because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sorely broken;
I have groaned because of the disquiet of my heart.

9 Lord, all my desires are known to Thee;
and my groaning is not hidden from Thee.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me;
as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my sore,
and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me;
and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and devise deceits all the day long.

13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not;
and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not,
and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For in Thee, O LORD, do I hope;
Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, "Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me;
when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me."
17 For I am ready for halting,
and my sorrow is continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity;
I will be sorry for my sin.
19 But mine enemies are alive and they are strong;
and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries,
because I follow the thing that is good.

21 Forsake me not, O LORD;
O my God, be not far from me!
22 Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!

Luke 14:1-14

1 And it came to pass, as He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath day, that they watched Him. 2 And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering, spoke unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying,

"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?"

4 But they held their peace. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. 5 And He answered them, saying,

"Which of you shall have an ox or an ass fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?"

6 And again they could not answer Him concerning these things.

7 And He put forth a parable to those who were bidden, when He marked how they chose out the chief places, saying unto them,

8 "When thou art bidden by any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest place, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden by him, 9 and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, `Give this man thy place,' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest place, that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, `Friend, go up higher.' Then shalt thou have honor in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. 11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted."

12 Then said He also to him who bade Him,

"When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbors, lest they also bid thee again and a recompense be made to thee. 13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, 14 and thou shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee. For thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."

1 Timothy 6:1-5

1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed. 2 And those who have believing masters must not despise them because they are brethren, but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 

3 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes over words, from which cometh envy, strife, railings, evil suspicions, 5 perverse disputings by men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. From such withdraw thyself.

Isaiah 42:1-12

1 "Behold My Servant, whom I uphold,
Mine Elect, in whom My soul delighteth:
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up,
nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench;
He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He hath set judgment in the earth;
and the isles shall wait for His law."

5 Thus saith God the LORD--He that created the heavens and stretched them out,
He that spread forth the earth
and that which cometh out of it,
He that giveth breath unto the people upon it,
and spirit to them that walk therein:
6 "I, the LORD, have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will keep Thee,
and give Thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7 to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8 I am the LORD; that is My name.
And My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images.

9 "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare;
before they spring forth I tell you of them."

10 Sing unto the LORD a new song and His praise from the end of the earth,
ye that go down to the sea and all that is therein, the isles and the inhabitants thereof.
11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice,
the villages that Kedar doth inhabit.
Let the inhabitants of the rock sing;
let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory unto the LORD,
and declare His praise in the islands.

Words of Wisdom - Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound into the heart of a child, 
but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.