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Leviticus 19

Various Rules of Conduct.

1The LORD said to Moses:

2Speak to the whole Israelite community and tell them: Be holy, for I, the LORD your God, am holy.^{* a}

3^* Each of you revere your mother and father,^b and keep my sabbaths.^c I, the LORD, am your God.

4Do not turn aside to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves.^d I, the LORD, am your God.

5When you sacrifice your communion sacrifice to the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that it is acceptable on your behalf.

6It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice or on the following day. Whatever is left over until the third day shall be burned in fire.

7If any of it is eaten on the third day, it will be a desecrated offering and not be accepted;^e

8whoever eats of it then shall bear the penalty for having profaned what is sacred to the LORD. Such a one shall be cut off^f from the people.

9^* When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.^g

10Likewise, you shall not pick your vineyard bare, nor gather up the grapes that have fallen. These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien. I, the LORD, am your God.

11^* You shall not steal. You shall not deceive or speak falsely to one another.^h

12You shall not swear falsely by my name, thus profaning the name of your God.ⁱ I am the LORD.

13You shall not exploit your neighbor. You shall not commit robbery. You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your laborer.^j

14^* You shall not insult the deaf, or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

15You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your neighbor justly.^k

16You shall not go about spreading slander among your people; nor shall you stand by idly when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the LORD.

17^* You shall not hate any of your kindred in your heart. Reprove your neighbor openly so that you do not incur sin because of that person.^l

18Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.^m

19^* Keep my statutes: do not breed any of your domestic animals with others of a different species; do not sow a field of yours with two different kinds of seed; and do not put on a garment woven with two different kinds of thread.ⁿ

20^{* o} If a man has sexual relations with a female slave who has been acquired by another man but has not yet been redeemed or given her freedom, an investigation shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she has not been freed.

21The man shall bring to the entrance of the tent of meeting as his reparation to the LORD a ram as a reparation offering.^p

22With the ram of the reparation offering the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the wrong the man has committed, so that he will be forgiven for the wrong he has committed.

23When you come into the land and plant any fruit tree there,^q first look upon its fruit as if it were uncircumcised. For three years, it shall be uncircumcised for you; it may not be eaten.

24In the fourth year, however, all of its fruit shall be dedicated to the LORD in joyous celebration.

25Not until the fifth year may you eat its fruit, to increase the yield for you. I, the LORD, am your God.

26Do not eat anything with the blood still in it.^r Do not recite charms or practice soothsaying.^{* s}

27Do not clip your hair at the temples, nor spoil the edges of your beard.

28Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves.^{* t} I am the LORD.

29You shall not degrade your daughter by making a prostitute of her;^u otherwise the land will prostitute itself and become full of lewdness.

30Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary.^v I am the LORD.

31Do not turn to ghosts or consult spirits, by which you will be defiled.^w I, the LORD, am your God.

32Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the old, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

33When an alien resides with you in your land, do not mistreat such a one.^x

34You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt.^y I, the LORD, am your God.

35Do not act dishonestly in using measures of length or weight or capacity.

36You shall have a true scale and true weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin.^{* z} I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37Be careful, then, to observe all my statutes and decrees. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 20

Penalties for Various Sins.

1^* The LORD said to Moses:

2Tell the Israelites: Anyone, whether an Israelite or an alien residing in Israel, who gives offspring to Molech shall be put to death.^a The people of the land shall stone that person.

3^b I myself will turn against and cut off^c that individual from among the people; for in the giving of offspring to Molech, my sanctuary was defiled^d and my holy name was profaned.

4If the people of the land condone the giving of offspring to Molech, by failing to put the wrongdoer to death,

5I myself will turn against that individual and his or her family, and I will cut off from their people both the wrongdoer and all who follow this person by prostituting themselves with Molech.

6Should anyone turn to ghosts and spirits and prostitute oneself with them,^e I will turn against that person and cut such a one off from among the people.

7Sanctify yourselves, then, and be holy; for I, the LORD, your God,^f am holy.

8Be careful, therefore, to observe my statutes. I, the LORD, make you holy.

9Anyone who curses father or mother shall be put to death;^{* g} and having cursed father or mother, such a one will bear the bloodguilt.^*

10^* If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife,^h both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

11If a man disgraces his father by lying with his father’s wife,ⁱ the two of them shall be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

12If a man lies with his daughter-in-law,^j both of them shall be put to death; they have done what is perverse; their bloodguilt is upon them.

13If a man lies with a male as with a woman,^k they have committed an abomination; the two of them shall be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

14If a man marries a woman and her mother also,^l that is shameful conduct; the man and the two women as well shall be burned to death, so that shamefulness may not be found among you.

15If a man has sexual relations with an animal,^m the man shall be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

16If a woman goes up to any animal to mate with it,ⁿ you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall both be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

17If a man marries his sister,^o his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and they have intercourse with each other, that is disgraceful; they shall be publicly cut off^* from the people; the man shall bear the penalty of having had intercourse with his own sister.

18If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and has intercourse with her, he has laid bare the source of her flow and she has uncovered it.^p The two of them shall be cut off from the people.

19You shall not have intercourse with your mother’s sister or your father’s sister,^q because that dishonors one’s own flesh; they shall bear their penalty.

20If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he disgraces his uncle;^r they shall bear the penalty; they shall die childless.

21If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is severe defilement and he has disgraced his brother;^s they shall be childless.

22Be careful to observe all my statutes and all my decrees; otherwise the land where I am bringing you to dwell will vomit you out.^t

23Do not conform, therefore, to the customs of the nations^u whom I am driving out of your way, because all these things that they have done have filled me with disgust for them.

24But to you I have said:^v You shall take possession of their land. I am giving it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I, the LORD, am your God, who have set you apart from other peoples.

25^w You, too, must set apart, then, the clean animals from the unclean, and the clean birds from the unclean, so that you do not make yourselves detestable through any beast or bird or any creature which creeps on the ground that I have set apart for you as unclean.

26To me, therefore, you shall be holy; for I, the LORD, am holy,^x and I have set you apart from other peoples to be my own.

27A man or a woman who acts as a medium or clairvoyant^y shall be put to death. They shall be stoned to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

Romans 7

Freedom from the Law.^*

1Are you unaware, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over one as long as one lives?

2Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law in respect to her husband.^a

3Consequently, while her husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if she consorts with another man. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man.

4In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

5For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.^b

6But now we are released from the law, dead to what held us captive, so that we may serve in the newness of the spirit and not under the obsolete letter.^c

Acquaintance with Sin through the Law.

7^* What then can we say? That the law is sin? Of course not!^* Yet I did not know sin except through the law, and I did not know what it is to covet except that the law said, “You shall not covet.”^d

8But sin, finding an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetousness. Apart from the law sin is dead.^e

9I once lived outside the law, but when the commandment came, sin became alive;

10then I died, and the commandment that was for life turned out to be death for me.^f

11For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it put me to death.^g

12So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.^h

Sin and Death.^*

13Did the good, then, become death for me? Of course not! Sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.ⁱ

14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin.^j

15What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.

16Now if I do what I do not want, I concur that the law is good.

17So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

18For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not.^k

19For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want.

20Now if [I] do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand.

22For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self,

23^l but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.^*

24Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body?

25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.^m

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