⁶¹ Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

³ O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

⁴ For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

¹⁴ The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

³ And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

¹³ You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

¹² Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

¹³ Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,

¹⁴ I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

¹⁶ Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.

¹ Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

³⁷ Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

⁸ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

⁹ And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,