Psalm 119:49-56

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Zayin

⁴⁹Remember ^(A)your word to your servant,
    in which you have made me ^(B)hope.
⁵⁰This is ^(C)my comfort in my affliction,
    that your promise ^(D)gives me life.
⁵¹^(E)The insolent utterly deride me,
    but I do not ^(F)turn away from your law.
⁵²When I think of your rules from of old,
    I take comfort, O Lord.
⁵³^(G)Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,
    who forsake your law.
⁵⁴Your statutes have been my songs
    in the house of my ^(H)sojourning.
⁵⁵I ^(I)remember your name in the night, O Lord,
    and keep your law.
⁵⁶This blessing has fallen to me,
    that ^(J)I have kept your precepts.

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Deuteronomy 5:1-21

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The Ten Commandments

5 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. ²^(A)The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. ³^(B)Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. ⁴The Lord spoke with you ^(C)face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, ⁵^(D)while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For ^(E)you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:

⁶^(F)“‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

⁷“‘You shall have no other gods before^[a] me.

⁸“‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁹You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, ¹⁰but showing steadfast love to ^(G)thousands^[b] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

¹¹“‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

¹²“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. ¹³Six days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁴but ^(H)the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, ^(I)that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. ¹⁵^(J)You shall remember that you were a slave^[c] in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there ^(K)with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

¹⁶“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, ^(L)that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁷^(M)“‘You shall not murder.^[d]

¹⁸^(N)“‘And you shall not commit adultery.

¹⁹“‘And you shall not steal.

²⁰“‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

²¹“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.’

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 5:7 Or besides
Deuteronomy 5:10 Or to the thousandth generation
Deuteronomy 5:15 Or servant
Deuteronomy 5:17 The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence

1 Peter 2:4-10

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⁴As you come to him, a living stone ^(A)rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, ⁵^(B)you yourselves like living stones are being built up as ^(C)a spiritual house, to be ^(D)a holy priesthood, ^(E)to offer spiritual sacrifices ^(F)acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶For it stands in Scripture:

^(G)“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious,
^(H)and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

⁷So the honor is for you who ^(I)believe, but for those who ^(J)do not believe,

^(K)“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”^[a]

⁸and

^(L)“A stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offense.”

They stumble because they disobey the word, ^(M)as they were destined to do.

⁹But you are ^(N)a chosen race, ^(O)a royal ^(P)priesthood, ^(Q)a holy nation, ^(R)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^(S)out of darkness into ^(T)his marvelous light. ¹⁰^(U)Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.