² Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

⁸ Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

⁵ So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

³ And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

⁴ The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

⁸ Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.

³ Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

⁴ And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

¹⁰ He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

¹⁴ A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.

¹ Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

² In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

³ For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

²¹ He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

⁴⁹ For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.

⁵⁰ And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.

¹³ Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.