Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁵ `See, I have set before thee to-day life and good, and death and evil,

¹⁶ in that I am commanding thee to-day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and thou hast lived and multiplied, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in the land whither thou art going in to possess it.

¹⁷ `And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them,

¹⁸ I have declared to you this day, that ye do certainly perish, ye do not prolong days on the ground which thou art passing over the Jordan to go in thither to possess it.

¹⁹ `I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,

²⁰ to love Jehovah thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave to Him (for He [is] thy life, and the length of thy days), to dwell on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.'

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!

3 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

² with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

³ for yet ye are fleshly, for where [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

⁴ for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

⁵ Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

⁷ so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

⁸ and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

⁹ for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

²¹ `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;

²² but I -- I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

²³ `If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,

²⁴ leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

²⁵ `Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,

²⁶ verily I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till that thou mayest pay the last farthing.

²⁷ `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

²⁸ but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

²⁹ `But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

³⁰ `And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

³¹ `And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

³² but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

³³ `Again, ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not swear falsely, but thou shalt pay to the Lord thine oaths;

³⁴ but I -- I say to you, not to swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is the throne of God,

³⁵ nor by the earth, because it is His footstool, nor by Jerusalem, because it is a city of a great king,

³⁶ nor by thy head mayest thou swear, because thou art not able one hair to make white or black;

³⁷ but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.