¹³ For ^(A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Faith Without Works Is Dead

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith ^(B)but does not have works? Can that faith save him? ^15 (C)If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ^16 (D)and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good^[a] is that?

^14 (A)For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

^2 (A)For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and ^(B)with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

³⁰ He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. ³¹ When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. ³² Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. ^33 (A)And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ ^34 (B)And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,^{[a] (C)}until he should pay all his debt. ^35 (D)So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother ^(E)from your heart.”

⁹ “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ^(A)Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, ^10 (B)do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, ^(C)or the poor, and ^(D)let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” ¹¹ But ^(E)they refused to pay attention ^(F)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.^{[a] 12 (G)}They made their hearts diamond-hard ^(H)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent ^(I)by his Spirit through ^(J)the former prophets. ^(K)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts. ^13 (L)“As I^[b] called, and they would not hear, ^(M)so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,

¹⁶ but then you turned around ^(A)and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, ^(B)whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.

¹⁷ “Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me ^(C)by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; ^(D)behold, I proclaim to you liberty ^(E)to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. ^(F)I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.