⁸ Good and upright `is' Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way.

¹ I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

² for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

³ for this `is' right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

⁴ who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

¹ A Psalm. -- A Song for the sabbath-day. Good to give thanks to Jehovah, And to sing praises to Thy name, O Most High,

² To declare in the morning Thy kindness, And Thy faithfulness in the nights.

³ On ten strings and on psaltery, On higgaion, with harp.

⁴ For Thou hast caused me to rejoice, O Jehovah, in Thy work, Concerning the works of Thy hands I sing.

¹³ Eat my son, honey that `is' good, And the honeycomb -- sweet to thy palate.

¹⁴ So `is' the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.

¹⁵ Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

¹² so that the law, indeed, `is' holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

²³ Joy `is' to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season -- how good!

² For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

⁸ He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

¹¹ Wisdom `is' good with an inheritance, And an advantage `it is' to those beholding the sun.

²⁸ And I -- nearness of God to me `is' good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!

¹⁷ every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

⁵⁰ The salt `is' good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season `it'? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'

¹ A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren -- even together!

²⁵ Good `is' Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul `that' seeketh Him.

²⁶ Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

²⁷ Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.

⁴ because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

⁵ for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.

⁶ These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

⁵ For good `is' Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!

¹⁶ Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

² and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.