¹⁰ For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

¹² What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

¹⁴ Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.

¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

²⁶ If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

²² For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

³⁵ For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

²⁵ He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

¹ Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

² For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

³ Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.

⁴ And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.

⁵ Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

⁷ For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;

⁸ But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

⁹ With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

¹ So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

²² Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth:

⁵ And in their mouth there was no false word, for they are untouched by evil.

² For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

³⁵ Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.

⁴ And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

⁷ O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

⁸ The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

²⁵ My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

²⁸ He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

¹³ I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁹ He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

⁵ So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.

³ I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

¹⁶ But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

¹⁷ For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law.

⁴⁷ And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.