Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³³ [He.] Show me, O Jehovah, the way of Thy statutes, And I keep it -- [to] the end.

³⁴ Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

³⁵ Cause me to tread in the path of Thy commands, For in it I have delighted.

³⁶ Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

³⁷ Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

³⁸ Establish to Thy servant Thy saying, That [is] concerning Thy fear.

³⁹ Remove my reproach that I have feared, For Thy judgments [are] good.

⁴⁰ Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,

²¹ `And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

²² `Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

²³ if thou dost really afflict him, surely if he at all cry unto Me, I certainly hear his cry;

²⁴ and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

²⁵ `If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

²⁶ if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:

²⁷ for it alone is his covering, it [is] his garment for his skin; wherein doth he lie down? and it hath come to pass, when he doth cry unto Me, that I have heard, for I [am] gracious.

²³ All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

²⁴ let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

²⁵ Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

²⁶ for the Lord's [is] the earth, and its fulness;

²⁷ and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

²⁸ and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed [it], and of the conscience, for the Lord's [is] the earth and its fulness:

²⁹ and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why [is it] that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

³⁰ and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

³¹ Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

³² become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

³³ as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.

11 Followers of me become ye, as I also [am] of Christ.