Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
BETH
9 How shall a young man correct his way? By living according to Your Word.
10 With my whole heart I have sought You. Do not let me wander from Your Commandments.
11 I have treasured Your Word in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
12 Blessed are You, O LORD. Teach me Your Statutes.
13 With my lips I have declared all the Judgments of Your Mouth.
14 I have had as much delight in the way of Your Testimonies, as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on Your Precepts and consider Your ways.
16 I will delight in Your Statutes, and I will not forget Your Word.
21 “When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slow to pay it. For the LORD your God will surely require it of you. And so it would be sin to you.
22 “But when you abstain from vowing, it shall be no sin to you.
23 “That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform, as you have vowed it willingly to the LORD your God. You have spoken it with your mouth.
24 “When you come to your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes at your pleasure, as much as you will. But you shall put none in your container.
25 “When you come to your neighbor’s corn, you may pluck the ears with your hand. But you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s corn.”
24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if so be she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some filthiness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement and put it in her hand and send her out of his house.
2 “And when she has departed out of his house, and gone her way, and marries another man —
3 “if the latter husband hates her and writes her a letter of divorcement and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man who took her for his wife dies —
4 “her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is abomination in the sight of the LORD. And you shall not cause the land to sin which the LORD your God gives you to inherit.
10 “When you shall lend your neighbor anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
11 “But you shall stand outside. And the man who borrowed it from you shall bring the pledge out of the doors to you.
12 “Furthermore, if it is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge,
13 “but you shall restore to him the pledge when the Sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his clothes and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
14 “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is needy and poor, from your brothers or from the stranger who is in your land within your gates.
15 “You shall give him his wages for his day and the Sun shall not go down upon it (for he is poor and with such sustains his life), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it is sin to you.
2 My brothers, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with favoritism.
2 For if a man with a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly. And then, also, a poor man in rags comes in—
3 and you have respect for the one wearing the fine clothing, saying to him, “Sit here in a good place”, yet you say to the poor, “Stand over there”, or “Sit here under my footstool” —
4 are you not partial among yourselves, becoming judges of evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
6 But you have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you by tyranny? And do they not draw you before the judgment seats?
7 Do they not blaspheme the worthy Name after which you are named?
8 But if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”, you do well.
9 But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are rebuked by the Law as transgressors.
10 For whoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet fails in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For He Who said, “You shall not commit adultery”, also said, “You shall not kill”. Now, though you do no adultery, if you kill you are still a transgressor of the Law.
12 So speak and so do as those who shall be judged by the Law of liberty.
13 For there shall be merciless condemnation for the one who does not show mercy. And mercy rejoices against condemnation.
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