Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ And thou, son of man, A watchman I gave thee to the house of Israel, And thou hast heard from My mouth a word, And thou hast warned them from Me.

⁸ In My saying to the wicked, O wicked one -- thou dost surely die, And thou hast not spoken to warn the wicked from his way, He -- the wicked -- in his iniquity doth die, And his blood from thy hand I require.

⁹ And thou, when thou hast warned the wicked of his way, to turn back from it, And he hath not turned back from his way, He in his iniquity doth die, And thou thy soul hast delivered.

¹⁰ And thou, son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Rightly ye have spoken, saying: Surely our transgressions and our sins [are] on us, And in them we are wasting away, How, then, do we live?

¹¹ Say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I delight not in the death of the wicked, But -- in the turning of the wicked from his way, And he hath lived, Turn back, turn back, from your evil ways, Yea, why do ye die, O house of Israel?

³³ [He.] Show me, O Jehovah, the way of Thy statutes, And I keep it -- [to] the end.

³⁴ Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

³⁵ Cause me to tread in the path of Thy commands, For in it I have delighted.

³⁶ Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

³⁷ Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

³⁸ Establish to Thy servant Thy saying, That [is] concerning Thy fear.

³⁹ Remove my reproach that I have feared, For Thy judgments [are] good.

⁴⁰ Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,

⁸ To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,

⁹ for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'

¹⁰ the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, [is] the fulness of law.

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already [is] to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer [is] our salvation than when we did believe;

¹² the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

¹³ as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

¹⁴ but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

¹⁵ `And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

¹⁶ and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

¹⁷ `And if he may not hear them, say [it] to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

¹⁸ `Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

¹⁹ `Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask -- it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,

²⁰ for where there are two or three gathered together -- to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'