Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

19 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

² Speak unto all the assembly of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Holy shall ye be, for I Jehovah your God am holy.

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the lowly, nor honour the person of the great; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not go about as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand up against the life of thy neighbour: I am Jehovah.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt earnestly rebuke thy neighbour, lest thou bear sin on account of him.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not avenge thyself, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am Jehovah.

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

² But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

³ And he [is] as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

⁴ The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶ For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

2 For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we had] to you, that it has not been in vain;

² but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

³ For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

⁴ but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

⁵ For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God [is] witness;

⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

⁷ but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

⁸ Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.

³⁴ But the Pharisees, having heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, were gathered together.

³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, demanded, tempting him, and saying,

³⁶ Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?

³⁷ And he said to him, Thou shalt love [the] Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.

³⁸ This is [the] great and first commandment.

³⁹ And [the] second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁴⁰ On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang.

⁴¹ And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus demanded of them,

⁴² saying, What think ye concerning the Christ? whose son is he? They say to him, David's.

⁴³ He says to them, How then does David in Spirit call him Lord, saying,

⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies under thy feet?

⁴⁵ If therefore David call him Lord, how is he his son?

⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did any one dare from that day to question him any more.