Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

4 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

² You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

⁶ And you shall observe, and fulfill them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.

⁷ Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.

⁸ For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before your eyes?

⁹ Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

15 The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put trust in thee.

² I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.

³ To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.

⁴ Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I will not gather together their meetings for blood offerings: nor will I be mindful of their names by my lips.

⁵ The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

⁶ The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.

⁷ I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover my reins also have corrected me even till night.

⁸ I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, that I be not moved.

⁹ Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope.

¹⁰ Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt then give thy holy one to see corruption.

¹¹ Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.

¹⁷ Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.

¹⁸ For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.

¹⁹ You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.

²⁰ For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.

²¹ Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

²³ For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.

²⁴ For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

²⁵ But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.

²⁶ And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

²⁷ Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

7 And there assembled together unto him the Pharisees and some of the scribes, coming from Jerusalem.

² And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients:

⁴ And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots, and of brazen vessels, and of beds.

⁵ And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

⁶ But he answering, said to them: Well did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

⁷ And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men.

⁸ For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

¹⁴ And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear ye me all, and understand.

¹⁵ There is nothing from without a man that entering into him, can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

²¹ For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

²² Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

²³ All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.