Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ [Beth.] With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.

¹⁰ With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

¹² Blessed [art] Thou, O Jehovah, teach me Thy statutes.

¹³ With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth.

¹⁴ In the way of Thy testimonies I have joyed, As over all wealth.

¹⁵ In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.

¹⁶ In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.

²¹ `When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thy God, thou dost not delay to complete it; for Jehovah thy God doth certainly require it from thee, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

²² `And when thou forbearest to vow, it is not in thee a sin.

²³ The produce of thy lips thou dost keep, and hast done [it], as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God; a free-will-offering, which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

²⁴ `When thou comest in unto the vineyard of thy neighbour, then thou hast eaten grapes, according to thy desire, thy sufficiency; but into thy vessel thou dost not put [any].

²⁵ When thou comest in among the standing-corn of thy neighbour, then thou hast plucked the ears with thy hand, but a sickle thou dost not wave over the standing-corn of thy neighbour.

24 `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given [it] into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

² and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,

³ and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given [it] into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:

⁴ `Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it [is] before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.

¹⁰ `When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge;

¹¹ at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting [it] up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside.

¹² `And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

¹³ thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.

¹⁴ `Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

¹⁵ in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he [is] poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

2 My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

² for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

³ and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, `Thou -- sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, `Thou -- stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' --

⁴ ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

⁷ do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

⁸ If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;

⁹ and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

¹⁰ for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one [point], he hath become guilty of all;

¹¹ for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;

¹² so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

¹³ for the judgment without kindness [is] to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.