⁴ As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

⁵ Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

⁶ And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

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.

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,

¹⁴ And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

³⁸ And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.

⁸ And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

¹ And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

² Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

⁶ They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

⁷ These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.

¹⁸ He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

²⁵ So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.

¹⁷ And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

¹⁸ Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.

¹¹ My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

¹² I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

² He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;

¹ <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

¹¹ But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

⁹ He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

⁷ An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!

¹ Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth: