¹⁸ He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

⁹ He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

⁶ Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

³ Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

² And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

³ And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

³ The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

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

⁵ The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

²⁵ When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.

⁵ But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

²⁰ As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

¹¹ But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

²¹ For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

³² And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.