Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

6 `And this [is] the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it,

² so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.

³ `And thou hast heard, O Israel, and observed to do, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest multiply exceedingly, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee, [in] the land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴ `Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God [is] one Jehovah;

⁵ and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

⁶ and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,

⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

⁹ and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

119 [Aleph.] O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah,

² O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

³ Yea, they have not done iniquity, In His ways they have walked.

⁴ Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

⁶ Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.

⁷ I confess Thee with uprightness of heart, In my learning the judgments of Thy righteousness.

⁸ Thy statutes I keep, leave me not utterly!

¹¹ And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --

¹² neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

¹³ for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

²⁸ And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?'

²⁹ and Jesus answered him -- `The first of all the commands [is], Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one;

³⁰ and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength -- this [is] the first command;

³¹ and the second [is] like [it], this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; -- greater than these there is no other command.'

³² And the scribe said to him, `Well, Teacher, in truth thou hast spoken that there is one God, and there is none other but He;

³³ and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.'

³⁴ And Jesus, having seen him that he answered with understanding, said to him, `Thou art not far from the reign of God;' and no one any more durst question him.