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This is a text that links the quest for social justice with worship (vv. 6-7). Martin Luther seems to see things that way:
… the performance of all the works of the Second Table of the Ten Commandments, such as honoring father and mother, living a patent, chaste, and decent life, is worshiping God. For he who leads such a life is serving and honoring the same God.
(What Luther Says, p. 1547)
John Calvin echoes these sentiments, contending that without God we are not likely to give our neighbors what we need:
… the performance of all the works of the Second Table of the Ten Commandments, such as honoring father and mother, living a patent, chaste, and decent life, is worshiping God. For he who leads such a life is serving and honoring the same God.
(What Luther Says, p. 1547)
John Calvin echoes these sentiments, contending that without God we are not likely to give our neighbors what we need:
