extolled by St Paul in his extraordinary hymn to love (1 Cor. 13:1–13). (iii) Walk humbly with your God. It is the daily walk in relationship with God that lies at the heart of religion; the ritual of the temple could give expression to the vitality of that walk, but it could never replace it as the centre of Israel’s faith. And the humble walk with God went hand in hand with the practice of justice and the love of kindness. This triad of virtue forms the foundations of the religious life; this was