³⁵ So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.

²⁵ There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

⁹ For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

¹⁷ For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

¹⁸ For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

¹³ Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

¹⁸ Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

²⁰ And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

¹⁹ As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.

²⁰ Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

²¹ For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

¹⁹ In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

²⁰ A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

²¹ You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?

²² You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

²³ You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

³⁹ And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

⁴⁰ These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹ But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

⁸ How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

⁹ The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

²⁰ Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

²¹ Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!

¹² Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.