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

June 1

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The Lectionary According to the Common Calendar

Psalm 124

1 "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side"--now may Israel say--
2 "if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when men rose up against us,
3 then would they have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us;
4 then would the waters have overwhelmed us,
the stream would have gone over our soul;
5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul."

6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.

Mark 12:13-17

13 And they sent unto Him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to catch Him in His words. 14 And when they had come, they said unto Him, "Master, we know that thou art true and carest for no man; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 15 Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them,

"Why tempt ye Me? Bring Me a penny, that I may see it."

16 And they brought it, and He said unto them,

"Whose image and superscription is this?"

And they said unto Him, "Caesar's." 17 And Jesus answering, said unto them,

"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

And they marveled at Him.

2 Corinthians 13:1-6

1 This is the third time I am coming to you. "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." 2 I told you before, and fortell you as if I were present the second time and, being absent, now I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare -- 3 since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you. 4 For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.

5 Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith. Test your own selves. Know ye not yourselves how Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

1 Kings 8:44-61

44 "If Thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever Thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which Thou hast chosen and toward the house that I have built for Thy name, 45 then hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 

46 "If they sin against Thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and Thou be angry with them and deliver them to the enemy so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; 47 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent and make supplication unto Thee in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, `We have sinned and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness'; 48 and so return unto Thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray unto Thee toward their land which Thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which Thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for Thy name-- 49 then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven Thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause; 50 and forgive Thy people who have sinned against Thee and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against Thee, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 51 (for they are Thy people and Thine inheritance, whom Thou broughtest forth out of Egypt from the midst of the furnace of iron), 52 that Thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of Thy servant and unto the supplication of Thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto Thee. 53 For Thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth to be Thine inheritance, as Thou spoke by the hand of Moses Thy servant when Thou brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD."

54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 55 And he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 "Blessed be the LORD, who hath given rest unto His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There hath not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised by the hand of Moses His servant. 57 The LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. Let Him not leave us nor forsake us, 58 that He may incline our hearts unto Him to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments which He commanded our fathers. 59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that He maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require, 60 that all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. 61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day."

Words of Wisdom - Ecclesiasticus 18:25

When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger; 
and when thou art rich, think upon poverty and need.