² Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou `art' God.

³ Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things -- thou hast not known them.

³⁵ and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

⁵ As thou knowest not what `is' the way of the spirit, How -- bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

²⁹ Whoso is slow to anger `is' of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

⁸ I cause thee to act wisely, And direct thee in the way that thou goest, I cause mine eye to take counsel concerning thee.

²⁸ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age -- Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.

³ Great `is' Jehovah, and praised greatly, And of His greatness there is no searching.

²⁸ there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

²⁹ and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

²⁶ And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

²¹ Many `are' the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.

³ for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

²¹ all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

²² from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

²³ and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁸ we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are' temporary, but the things not seen `are' age-during.

⁷ The first thing `is' wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

² Every way of a man `is' right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.

⁹ Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

¹³⁰ The opening of Thy words enlighteneth, Instructing the simple.

³³ O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

⁹ For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

¹⁸ and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him `is' the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

¹³ Let no one say, being tempted -- `From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

⁴ For a thousand years in Thine eyes `are' as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.