²⁰ Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹ And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

¹³ Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

¹⁴ Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.

¹⁵ But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁶ For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

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

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.

⁸ He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

⁵ For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.

⁸ For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.