⁹ And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

³⁶ Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

¹⁴ But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.

¹² Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.

⁵ To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

¹⁴ So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

²⁴ For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

³¹ And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.

²⁰ And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land.

²³ These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

² Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

⁵ To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

²⁶ To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.

²⁹ A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

⁴ Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

²⁴ No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

¹⁸ And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

⁷ And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

⁸ Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.