The following are the readings for the Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany, Feb. 27, according to the Revised Common (RCL), Episcopal (ECUSA), Roman Catholic, Canadian, and Church of England (CofE) Lectionaries. All readings are taken from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible. The Canadian lectionary are identical to the RCL this week unless noted otherwise. 

OLD TESTAMENT: Hosea 2: 14 - 20 (RCL) 
                                   Hosea 2: 14 - 23 (ECUSA) 
                                   Hosea 2: 14b, 15b, 19 - 20 (Roman Catholic) 

Hose 2:14 (NRSV) Therefore, I will now allure her, 
and bring her into the wilderness, 
and speak tenderly to her. 
15 From there I will give her her vineyards, 
and make the Valley of A'chor a door of hope. 
There she shall respond as in the days of her youth, 
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. 
16 On that day, says the LORD, you will call me, "My husband," and no longer will you call me, "My Ba'al." 17 For I will remove the names of the Ba'als from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. 18 I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety. 19 And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy. 20 I will take you for my wife in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD. 
21 On that day I will answer, says the LORD, 
I will answer the heavens 
and they shall answer the earth; 
22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, 
and they shall answer Jez'reel; 
23 and I will sow him for myself in the land. 
And I will have pity on Lo-ruha'mah, 
and I will say to Lo-am'mi, "You are my people"; 
and he shall say, "You are my God." 

Note: Verse numbering in Roman Catholic Bibles is two lower than the above. 

Proverbs 8: 1, 22 - 31 (C of E) 

Prov 8:1 (NRSV) Does not wisdom call, 
and does not understanding raise her voice? 
22 The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, 
the first of his acts of long ago. 
23 Ages ago I was set up, 
at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 
24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, 
when there were no springs abounding with water. 
25 Before the mountains had been shaped, 
before the hills, I was brought forth-- 
26 when he had not yet made earth and fields, 
or the world's first bits of soil. 
27 When he established the heavens, I was there, 
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 
28 when he made firm the skies above, 
when he established the fountains of the deep, 
29 when he assigned to the sea its limit, 
so that the waters might not transgress his command, 
when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 
30 then I was beside him, like a master worker; 
and I was daily his delight, 
rejoicing before him always, 
31 rejoicing in his inhabited world 
and delighting in the human race. 

PSALM 103: 1 - 13, 22 (RCL) 
Psalm 103: 1 - 6 (7 - 22) (ECUSA) 
Psalm 103: 1 - 4, 8, 10, 12 - 13 (Roman Catholic) 

Psal 103:1 (NRSV) Bless the LORD, O my soul, 
and all that is within me, 
bless his holy name. 
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, 
and do not forget all his benefits-- 
3 who forgives all your iniquity, 
who heals all your diseases, 
4 who redeems your life from the Pit, 
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, 
5 who satisfies you with good as long as you live 
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. 
6 The LORD works vindication 
and justice for all who are oppressed. 
7 He made known his ways to Moses, 
his acts to the people of Israel. 
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, 
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. 
9 He will not always accuse, 
nor will he keep his anger forever. 
10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, 
nor repay us according to our iniquities. 
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, 
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 
12 as far as the east is from the west, 
so far he removes our transgressions from us. 
13 As a father has compassion for his children, 
so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him. 
14 For he knows how we were made; 
he remembers that we are dust. 
15 As for mortals, their days are like grass; 
they flourish like a flower of the field; 
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, 
and its place knows it no more. 
17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting 
on those who fear him, 
and his righteousness to children's children, 
18 to those who keep his covenant 
and remember to do his commandments. 
19 The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, 
and his kingdom rules over all. 
20 Bless the LORD, O you his angels, 
you mighty ones who do his bidding, 
obedient to his spoken word. 
21 Bless the LORD, all his hosts, 
his ministers that do his will. 
22 Bless the LORD, all his works, 
in all places of his dominion. 
Bless the LORD, O my soul. 

Psalm 104: 24 - 35 (C of E) 

Psal 104:24 (NRSV) O LORD, how manifold are your works! 
In wisdom you have made them all; 
the earth is full of your creatures. 
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, 
creeping things innumerable are there, 
living things both small and great. 
26 There go the ships, 
and Levi'athan that you formed to sport in it. 
27 These all look to you 
to give them their food in due season; 
28 when you give to them, they gather it up; 
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. 
29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; 
when you take away their breath, they die 
and return to their dust. 
30 When you send forth your spirit, they are created; 
and you renew the face of the ground. 
31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; 
may the LORD rejoice in his works-- 
32 who looks on the earth and it trembles, 
who touches the mountains and they smoke. 
33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; 
I will sing praise to my God while I have being. 
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him, 
for I rejoice in the LORD. 
35 Let sinners be consumed from the earth, 
and let the wicked be no more. 
Bless the LORD, O my soul. 
Praise the LORD! 

NEW TESTAMENT: 2 Corinthians 3: 1 - 6 (RCL) 
                                    2 Corinthians 3: (4 - 11) 7 - 4: 2 (ECUSA) 
                                    2 Corinthians 3: 1b - 6 (Roman Catholic) 

2Cor 3:1 (NRSV) Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all; 3 and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God, 6 who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 
7 Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses' face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, 8 how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory! 10 Indeed, what once had glory has lost its glory because of the greater glory; 11 for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory! 
12 Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, 13 not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside. 14 But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside. 15 Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds; 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit. 4:1 Therefore, since it is by God's mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2 We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God's word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God. 

Colossians 1: 15 - 20 (C of E) 

Colo 1:15 (NRSV) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers--all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross. 

GOSPEL: Mark 2: 13 - 22 (RCL) 
                  Mark 2: 18 - 22 (ECUSA, Roman Catholic) 

Mark 2:13 (NRSV) Jesus went out again beside the sea; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them. 14 As he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphae'us sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him. 
15 And as he sat at dinner in Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples--for there were many who followed him. 16 When the scribes of the Phar'isees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 17 When Jesus heard this, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners." 
18 Now John's disciples and the Phar'isees were fasting; and people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Phar'isees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 19 Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day. 
21 "No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins." 

John 1: 1 - 14 (C of E) 

John 1:1 (NRSV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. 
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. 
14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.