⁵ Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

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

¹ Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

¹⁷ What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him,

¹⁵ having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, 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 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

⁴⁷ The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

⁴⁸ As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

⁴⁹ As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's{NU, TR read "we will" instead of "let's"} also bear the image of the heavenly.

⁵⁰ Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

⁶ But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

⁷ For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

⁸ He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

⁹ But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

²⁴ A man's steps are from Yahweh; How then can man understand his way?

¹ The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

¹¹ But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

²² that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

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

²⁴ and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

²⁵ Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak 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 sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.