¹ Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence ye were digged.

⁷ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings.

¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

¹⁵ For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁵ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be `a mother of' nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

⁹ The way of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

¹² Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

³⁰ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

³¹ but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at `that' law.

³² Wherefore? Because `they sought it' not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

²² after righteousness, faith, love, pace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

¹³ Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing `I do', forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

¹¹ Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

¹² that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

¹⁹ So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

³³ But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

³ Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

⁴ Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

²¹ He that followeth after righteousness and kindness Findeth life, righteousness, and honor.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne `by me' from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

⁴ and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry `you'; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

⁴ Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.

² Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:

⁶ Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

³ Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.

⁶ Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

⁶ This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, `even' Jacob. Selah