²⁸ But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.

⁴ But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.

⁵ Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?

⁴⁰ Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

² Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

³ For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.

⁴ I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

⁵ I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

⁶ I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

⁷ That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.

²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

²¹ My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

³¹ But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.

²³ If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,

²⁴ While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

⁵ Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

⁶ And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

⁷ Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?

⁷ This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

⁵ For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

¹⁰ Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:

¹¹ In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;

¹² Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

¹³ But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him.