Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁰ And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.

¹¹ And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may enter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I would give them.

¹² And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

¹³ And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?

¹⁴ Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.

¹⁵ And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.

¹⁶ Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

¹⁷ Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.

¹⁸ He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

¹⁹ And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.

²¹ He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.

²² In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

¹⁴ What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?

¹⁵ And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food:

¹⁶ And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?

¹⁷ So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

¹⁸ But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.

¹⁹ Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

²⁰ But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?

²² Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect?

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God.

²⁴ Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only?

²⁵ And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way?

²⁶ For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.