Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
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41 Let your mercy come to me, Lord,
salvation in accord with your promise.
42 Let me answer my taunters with a word,
for I trust in your word.
43 Do not take the word of truth from my mouth,
for in your judgments is my hope.
44 I will keep your law always,
for all time and forever.
45 I will walk freely in an open space
because I cherish your precepts.
46 I will speak openly of your testimonies
without fear even before kings.
47 I delight in your commandments,
which I dearly love.
48 [a]I lift up my hands to your commandments;
I study your statutes, which I love.
Chapter 6
1 This then is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances,(A) which the Lord, your God, has commanded that you be taught to observe in the land you are about to cross into to possess, 2 so that you, that is, you, your child, and your grandchild, may fear the Lord, your God, by keeping, as long as you live, all his statutes and commandments(B) which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life. 3 Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly; for the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.(C)
The Great Commandment.[a] 4 (D)Hear, O Israel![b] The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! 5 Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart, and with your whole being, and with your whole strength.(E) 6 (F)Take to heart these words which I command you today.(G) 7 Keep repeating them to your children. Recite them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.(H) 8 Bind them on your arm as a sign[c] and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.(I) 9 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.(J)
Instruction to Children. 20 (A)Later on, when your son asks you, “What do these decrees and statutes and ordinances mean?”(B) which the Lord, our God, has enjoined on you, 21 (C)you shall say to your son, “We were once slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand(D) 22 and wrought before our eyes signs and wonders, great and dire, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and his whole house. 23 He brought us from there to bring us in and give us the land he had promised on oath to our ancestors.(E) 24 (F)The Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the Lord, our God, that we may always have as good a life as we have today. 25 This is our justice before the Lord, our God: to observe carefully this whole commandment he has enjoined on us.”
8 However, if you fulfill the royal[a] law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.(A) 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.(B) 10 For whoever keeps the whole law, but falls short in one particular, has become guilty in respect to all of it.(C) 11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not kill.”(D) Even if you do not commit adultery but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 (E)So speak and so act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom.[b] 13 For the judgment is merciless to one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.(F)
Faith and Works.[c]
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