Amos 2:4-16
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Judgment on Judah
4 The Lord says:
I will not relent from punishing Judah(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord(B)
and have not kept his statutes.(C)
The lies(D) that their ancestors followed(E)
have led them astray.
5 Therefore, I will send fire(F) against Judah,
and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.
Judgment on Israel
6 The Lord says:
I will not relent from punishing Israel(G)
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.(H)
7 They trample the heads of the poor(I)
on the dust of the ground
and obstruct the path of the needy.(J)
A man and his father have sexual relations
with the same girl,(K)
profaning my holy name.(L)
8 They stretch out beside every altar(M)
on garments taken as collateral,(N)
and in the house of their God
they drink wine obtained through fines.(O)
9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite(P) as Israel advanced;
his height(Q) was like the cedars,
and he was as sturdy as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit(R) above and his roots beneath.
10 And I brought you from the land of Egypt(S)
and led you forty years in the wilderness(T)
in order to possess the land of the Amorite.(U)
11 I raised up some of your sons as prophets(V)
and some of your young men as Nazirites.(W)
Is this not the case, Israelites?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
12 But you made the Nazirites drink wine
and commanded the prophets,
“Do not prophesy.”(X)
13 Look, I am about to crush[a] you in your place(Y)
as a wagon crushes when full of grain.
14 Escape will fail the swift,(Z)
the strong one will not maintain his strength,(AA)
and the warrior will not save his life.
15 The archer will not stand his ground,(AB)
the one who is swift of foot
will not save himself,
and the one riding a horse will not save his life.(AC)
16 Even the most courageous of the warriors
will flee naked on that day(AD)—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
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- 2:13 Or hinder; Hb obscure
Deuteronomy 6:4-19
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4 “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a](A) 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.(B) 6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.(C) 7 Repeat them to your children.(D) Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol[b] on your forehead.[c](E) 9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.
Remembering God through Obedience
10 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give you—a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build, 11 houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant(F)—and when you eat and are satisfied,(G) 12 be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.(H) 13 Fear the Lord your God, worship him, and take your oaths in his name.(I) 14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you, 15 for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God.(J) Otherwise, the Lord your God will become angry with you and obliterate you from the face of the earth. 16 Do not test(K) the Lord your God as you tested him at Massah.(L) 17 Carefully observe the commands of the Lord your God, the decrees and statutes he has commanded you. 18 Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land(M) the Lord your God swore to give your ancestors,(N) 19 by driving out all your enemies before you, as the Lord has said.(O)
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James 2:1-13
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The Sin of Favoritism
2 My brothers and sisters, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.(A) 2 For if someone comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor person dressed in filthy clothes also comes in, 3 if you look with favor on the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor person, “Stand over there,” or “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,” 4 haven’t you made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world(B) to be rich in faith(C) and heirs(D) of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? 6 Yet you have dishonored the poor.(E) Don’t the rich oppress you and drag(F) you into court? 7 Don’t they blaspheme the good name that was invoked over you?(G)
8 Indeed, if you fulfill the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself,[a](H) you are doing well. 9 If, however, you show favoritism,(I) you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the entire law, and yet stumbles at one point, is guilty of breaking it all.(J) 11 For he who said, Do not commit adultery,[b] also said, Do not murder.[c](K) So if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you are a lawbreaker.
12 Speak and act as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.(L) 13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy.(M) Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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