Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

VAU.

⁴¹ ¶ Let thy mercy come unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy spoken word.

⁴² And I shall answer him that reproaches me, by saying that I trust in thy word.

⁴³ ¶ And take not at any time the word of truth out of my mouth; for I wait for thy judgment.

⁴⁴ So shall I keep thy law continually from age to age.

⁴⁵ ¶ And I will walk at liberty, for I sought thy commandments.

⁴⁶ I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed.

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

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

6 ¶ Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the rights, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you that ye might do them in the land into which ye go to inherit it

² that thou might fear the LORD 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 Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it that it may be well with thee and that ye may be multiplied exceedingly (as the LORD God of thy fathers has said unto thee) in the land that flows with milk and honey.

⁴ ¶ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.

⁵ And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.

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

⁷ and thou shalt repeat them diligently unto thy sons and shalt talk of them being in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up;

⁸ and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes;

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

²⁰ And when tomorrow thy son asks thee, saying, What are the testimonies and the statutes and the rights, which the LORD our God has commanded you?

²¹ Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

²² and the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, in Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes;

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

²⁴ And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes that we might fear the LORD our God for our good always that he might give us life, as it is at this day.

²⁵ And we shall have justice when we keep ourselves by doing all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

⁸ ¶ If ye truly fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well;

⁹ but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin and are accused of the law as rebels.

¹⁰ For whosoever shall have kept the whole law, and then offends in one point is made guilty of all.

¹¹ For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not murder. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou commit murder, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

¹² So speak ye and so do as those that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

¹³ For judgment without mercy shall be done unto the one that has shown no mercy; and mercy boasts against judgment.