God, the King of the Earth.

For the music director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

The Two Tablets Replaced

34 Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself ^(A)two stone tablets like the former ones, and ^(B)I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you smashed. ² So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to ^(C)Mount Sinai, and ^[a]present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. ³ And ^(D)no one is to come up with you, nor let anyone be seen ^[b]anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds are not to graze in front of that mountain.” ⁴ So he cut out ^(E)two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses got up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took the two stone tablets in his hand. ⁵ And ^(F)the Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he ^[c]called upon the name of the Lord. ⁶ Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, ^(G)compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in faithfulness and ^[d]truth; ⁷ who ^(H)keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He ^(I)will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, ^(J)inflicting the ^[e]punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” ⁸ And Moses hurried ^[f](K)to bow low toward the ground and worship. ⁹ Then he said, “^(L)If in any way I have found favor in Your sight, Lord, please may the Lord go along in our midst, even though ^[g](M)the people are so obstinate, and ^(N)pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and ^(O)take us as Your own ^[h]possession.”

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰ Then ^[i]God said, “Behold, ^(P)I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people ^(Q)I will perform miracles which have not been ^[j]produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ^[k]among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

¹¹ “^[l]Be sure to comply with what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^(R)I am going to drive out the Amorite from you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^12 (S)Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. ^13 (T)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their ^[m](U)Asherim ¹⁴ —for ^(V)you shall not worship any other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— ¹⁵ otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and ^(W)sacrifice to their gods, and someone ^(X)might invite you ^[n]to eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and ^(Y)you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons also to prostitute themselves with their gods. ^17 (Z)You shall not make for yourself any gods cast in metal.

¹³ For this reason we also constantly ^(A)thank God that when you received the ^(B)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(C)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(D)which also is at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became ^(E)imitators of ^(F)the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are ^(G)in Judea, for ^(H)you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, ^(I)even as they did from the Jews, ^15 (J)who both killed the Lord Jesus and ^(K)the prophets, and ^[a]drove us out. ^[b]They are not pleasing to God, ^[c]but hostile to all people, ^16 (L)hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles ^(M)so that they may be saved; with the result that they always ^[d](N)reach the limit of their sins. But ^(O)wrath has come upon them ^[e]fully.

¹⁷ But we, brothers and sisters, having been orphaned from you by absence for a ^[f]short while—^(P)in ^[g]person, not in ^[h]spirit—were all the more eager with great desire ^(Q)to see your face. ^18 [i]For ^(R)we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, ^[j](S)more than once—and ^(T)Satan ^(U)hindered us. ¹⁹ For who is our hope, or ^(V)joy or crown of pride, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His ^[k](W)coming? Or is it not indeed you? ²⁰ For you are ^(X)our glory and joy.

Personal Relationships

²¹ “^(A)You have heard that ^[a]the ancients were told, ‘^(B)You shall not murder,’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be answerable to ^(C)the court.’ ²² But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be answerable to ^(D)the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘^[b]You good-for-nothing,’ shall be answerable to ^[c](E)the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the ^[d](F)fiery hell. ²³ Therefore, if you are ^(G)presenting your ^[e]offering at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your ^[f]offering there before the altar and go; first be ^(H)reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your ^[g]offering. ^25 (I)[h]Come to good terms with your accuser quickly, while you are with him on the way to court, so that your accuser will not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will not be thrown into prison. ²⁶ Truly I say to you, ^(J)you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last ^[i]quadrans.