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

August 22

Text taken from the
Third Millennium Bible^® (TMB^®)
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The Lectionary According to the Common Calendar

Psalm 43

1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation;
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For Thou art the God of my strength; why dost Thou cast me off?
Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 O send out Thy light and Thy truth! Let them lead me.
Let them bring me unto Thy holy hill and to Thy tabernacles.
4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy;
yea, upon the harp will I praise Thee, O God, my God.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
And why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
who is the health of my countenance and my God.

Luke 16:1-13

1 And He said also unto His disciples,

"There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2 And he called him and said unto him, `How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer steward.' 3 Then the steward said within himself, `What shall I do? For my lord taketh away from me the stewardship. I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. 4 I am resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.' 5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, `How much owest thou unto my lord?' 6 And he said, `A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, `Take thy bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.' 7 Then said he to another, `And how much owest thou?' And he said, `A hundred measures of wheat.' And he said unto him, `Take thy bill and write fourscore.' 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely; for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 9 And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 10 He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

13 No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

2 Timothy 1:8-14

8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner; but be thou a partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God,

9 who hath saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but in accordance with His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the world began, 10 but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. 11 For this I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles, 12 for which cause I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that Day. 

13 Hold fast to the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 14 That good thing which was committed unto thee, keep, by the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us.

Isaiah 52:1-10

1 Awake, awake! Put on thy strength, O Zion! Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city!
For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake thyself from the dust;
arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem.
Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus saith the LORD: "Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
and ye shall be redeemed without money."

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD: "My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there,
and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here," saith the LORD,
"that My people are taken away for nought?
They that rule over them make them to howl," saith the LORD,
"and My name continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore My people shall know My name;
therefore they shall know in that day that I am He that doth speak. Behold, it is I."

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace;
that bringeth good tidings of good,
that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, "Thy God reigneth!"
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice;
with the voice together shall they sing:
for they shall see eye to eye,
when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy,
sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem:
for the LORD hath comforted His people,
He hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD hath made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations;
and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Words of Wisdom - Wisdom of Solomon 5:15-16

But the righteous live for evermore; 
their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the Most High.
Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, 
and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand; 
for with His right hand shall He cover them, 
and with His arm shall He protect them.