⁵ Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

¹ Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

¹ Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

¹⁷ What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

¹⁵ having abolished in the flesh the enmity, `even' the law of commandments `contained' in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, `so' making peace;

⁴⁵ So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam `became' a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁶ Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.

⁴⁷ The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.

⁴⁸ As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

⁶ But one hath somewhere testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁷ For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;

⁸ a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

⁹ But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:

²⁴ A man's goings are of Jehovah; How then can man understand his way?

¹ The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

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

²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

²² that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

²³ and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

²⁴ and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

¹² Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--