³ Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

² He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;

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.

²⁵ But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

⁹ And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

⁴⁹ But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

⁴² But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

¹⁷ If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

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.

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?

²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

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

¹⁶ And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

⁷ To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

¹⁵ This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.

⁷⁴ That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,

⁷⁵ In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

³⁵ Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

¹ So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

¹ Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

² But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

³ He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

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.

¹² O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

¹ <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.

² Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

³ They do no evil; they go in his ways.

²⁰ My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.

⁴⁴ So that I may keep your law for ever and ever;

¹⁰⁶ I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.

¹¹² My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

¹ The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.

² Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.

⁵ For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

¹⁵ Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

¹⁶ He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

²¹ But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.

²² Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.

¹⁹ Do not take the property of another.