Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

6 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it:

² That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.

³ Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴ Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

⁵ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

⁶ And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

⁷ And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

⁸ And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

⁹ And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.

²⁰ And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

²¹ Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

²² And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,

²³ And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.

²⁴ And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day.

²⁵ And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

⁸ If then you fulfill the royal law, according to the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

⁹ But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.

¹⁰ And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all.

¹¹ For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but shalt kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

¹² So speak ye, and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.

¹³ For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.