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¹I turned myself to other things, and I saw the false accusations which are carried out under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and that there was no one to console them; and that they were not able to withstand their violence, being destitute of all help.

³Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.

¹⁰And the Lord has become a refuge for the poor, a helper in opportunity, in tribulation.

⁴He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.

¹¹Yet the earth was corrupted before the eyes of God, and it was filled with iniquity.

³Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful.

⁶Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart, ¹⁹to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.”

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,

²⁸So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church.

¹²For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate.

¹Then Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out to see the women of that region. ²And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of that land, had seen her, he fell in love with her. And so he seized her and slept with her, overwhelming the virgin by force. ³And his soul was closely bound to her, and, since she was sorrowful, he soothed her with flattery. ⁴And going on to Hamor, his father, he said, “Obtain this girl for me as a mate.” ⁵But when Jacob had heard this, since his sons were absent and he was occupied in pasturing the cattle, he remained silent until they came back. ⁶Then, when Hamor, the father of Shechem, had gone out to speak to Jacob,

¹Woe to those who make unfair laws, and who, when writing, write injustice: ²in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.

¹⁸Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.

¹⁷Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

¹⁴For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

²⁴Truly, O God, you will lead them away into the well of death. Bloody and deceitful men will not divide their days in half. But I will hope in you, O Lord.

⁵even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them. ⁶For among these are ones who penetrate houses and lead away, like captives, foolish women burdened with sins, who are led away by means of various desires, ⁷always learning, yet never achieving knowledge of the truth. ⁸And in the same manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so also will these resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobates from the faith. ⁹But they will not advance beyond a certain point. For the folly of the latter shall be made manifest to all, just as that of the former. ¹⁰But you have fully comprehended my doctrine, instruction, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

⁶The Lord questions the just and the impious. Yet he who loves iniquity, hates his own soul.

²⁸But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

³³He gathers shame and dishonor to himself, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

⁸You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. ⁹For example: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not speak false testimony. You shall not covet. And if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁰The love of neighbor does no harm. Therefore, love is the plenitude of the law.