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.
10 And I stayed in the mount, like the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD did not desire to destroy thee.
11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people that they may enter in and inherit the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.
12 ¶ And now, Israel, what does the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 to keep the commandments of the LORD and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens are of the LORD thy God, the earth also, with all that is therein.
15 The LORD delighted only in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you from among all the peoples, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise, therefore, the foreskin of your heart, and no longer be stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty, and terrible, who makes no exception of persons, nor takes a bribe;
18 he executes the rights of the fatherless and the widow and also loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
19 Ye shall love, therefore, the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave and swear by his name.
21 He shall be thy praise, and he shall be thy God, that has done with thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls, and now the LORD thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.
14 ¶ My brethren, What shall it profit though someone says that they have faith and do not have works? Shall this type of faith be able to save them?
15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
16 and one of you says unto them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled; but ye do not give them those things which are needful for the body; what shall it profit them?
17 Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead in and of itself.
18 But someone may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well; the demons also believe and tremble.
20 But, O vain man, dost thou desire to know that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
22 Dost thou not see how the faith worked together with his works, and the faith was complete by the works?
23 And that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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