¹⁶ Circumcise^(A) your hearts,^(B) therefore, and do not be stiff-necked^(C) any longer. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods^(D) and Lord of lords,^(E) the great God, mighty and awesome,^(F) who shows no partiality^(G) and accepts no bribes.^{(H) 18} He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow,^(I) and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.^{(J) 19} And you are to love^(K) those who are foreigners,^(L) for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.^(M)

²⁶ Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues^(A) deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. ²⁷ Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after^(B) orphans and widows^(C) in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.^(D)

² At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.^{(A) 3} The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴ and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.^(B) Now what do you say?” ⁶ They were using this question as a trap,^(C) in order to have a basis for accusing him.^(D)

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. ⁷ When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone^(E) at her.”^{(F) 8} Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

⁹ At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰ Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹ “No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,”^(G) Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”^(H)