Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴¹ VAU. And let thy loving-kindness come unto me, O Jehovah,—thy salvation according to thy word.

⁴² So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me; for I confide in thy word.

⁴³ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; because I have hoped in thy judgments.

⁴⁴ Then will I keep thy law continually, for ever and ever;

⁴⁵ And I will walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts;

⁴⁶ And I will speak of thy testimonies before kings, and will not be ashamed;

⁴⁷ And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved;

⁴⁸ And I will lift up my hands unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes.

6 And these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye may do them in the land whereunto ye pass over to possess it,

² that thou mayest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

³ And thou shalt hear, Israel, and take heed to do [them]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴ Hear, Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah;

⁵ and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength.

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

⁷ and thou shalt impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

⁸ And thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

⁹ And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

²⁰ When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

²¹ then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a powerful hand;

²² and Jehovah shewed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes;

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

²⁴ And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good continually, that he might preserve us alive, as it is this day.

²⁵ And it shall be our righteousness if we take heed to do all these commandments before Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us.

⁸ If indeed ye keep [the] royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

⁹ But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁰ For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one [point], he has come under the guilt of [breaking] all.

¹¹ For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become transgressor of [the] law.

¹² So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by [the] law of liberty;

¹³ for judgment [will be] without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.