¹⁹ So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

²³ The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.

¹⁶ The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

²⁸ In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

¹⁰ In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

⁷ My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

²³ For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁸ But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

⁹ Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

³⁵ But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

⁴ Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

³⁶ But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

²² The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

²³ Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

¹⁶ For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

¹⁷ Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

¹⁸ And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

¹⁹ Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.