⁷ My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

²⁹ If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

²⁶ I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

¹ My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

¹⁵ But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;

¹⁶ Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

¹ <Of Solomon.> Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

² May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

³ May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.

⁴ May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

⁵ May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.

⁶ May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

⁷ In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.

³ And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

²⁴ He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

¹⁹ You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

² And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;

⁸ But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

¹¹ Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

⁹ (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

³ Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

⁵ But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

⁶ And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour's wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean;

⁷ And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

⁸ And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

⁹ And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

²⁰ For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.

⁷⁵ In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

³⁵ But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

⁶ Who will give to every man his right reward:

⁷ To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

⁸ But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

¹⁶ Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

¹⁷ But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

¹⁸ And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

⁷ Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

⁸ Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

⁶ Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

⁷ You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.