Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
ו Vav
41 Let Your faithful love come to me, Lord,(A)
Your salvation, as You promised.(B)
42 Then I can answer the one who taunts me,(C)
for I trust in Your word.
43 Never take the word of truth from my mouth,
for I hope in Your judgments.(D)
44 I will always obey Your instruction,
forever and ever.(E)
45 I will walk freely in an open place(F)
because I seek Your precepts.(G)
46 I will speak of Your decrees before kings
and not be ashamed.(H)
47 I delight in Your commands,
which I love.(I)
48 I will lift up my hands(J) to Your commands,
which I love,
and will meditate on Your statutes.(K)
The Greatest Command
6 “This is the command—the statutes and ordinances—the Lord your God has instructed me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.(A) 2 Do this so that you may fear(B) the Lord your God all the days of your life by keeping all His statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life. 3 Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.(C)
4 “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.[a](D) 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.(E) 6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.(F) 7 Repeat them to your children.(G) Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol[b] on your forehead.[c](H) 9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
20 “When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which the Lord our God has commanded you?’ 21 tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand. 22 Before our eyes the Lord inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, 23 but He brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers. 24 The Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the Lord our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today. 25 Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.’
8 Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself,(A)[a] you are doing well. 9 But if you show favoritism,(B) you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.(C) 11 For He who said, Do not commit adultery,[b] also said, Do not murder.(D)[c] So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.
12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.(E) 13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy.(F) Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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