Deuteronomy 27 and the New Testament — a responsive creed
This arrangement is mostly drawing from the ESV and NLT, along with my own translation.
Cursed is anyone who carves or casts an idol and secretly sets it up!
Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater worshiping the things of this world.
Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or mother!
People will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful.
Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker!
Why have you let Satan fill your heart? You kept back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land. How could you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.
Cursed is anyone who leads a blind person down the wrong road!
Like animals driven by physical instincts, false teachers lack sensible logic and mature knowledge. They have veered off the right road and gotten lost.
Cursed is anyone who denies justice to foreigners, orphans, or widows!
You have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness.
Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with his father’s wife, with an animal, with his sister, or with his mother-in-law!
Since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do what ought not to be done.
Cursed is anyone who attacks a neighbor in secret!
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Cursed is anyone who accepts payment to kill an innocent person!
Whoever causes one of these little ones who trusts in me to sin: it would be better for him to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.
