¹⁸ He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

⁶ For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

²² And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.

⁵ And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

¹² As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

⁸ But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

²⁵ To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

¹⁸ (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

³ Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,

⁴ Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

⁵ And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.

²⁴ The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

²⁰ There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

²¹ He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

²² Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

²³ God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

¹² Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

¹³ Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

¹⁴ His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

¹⁵ He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

¹⁶ He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

²⁷ And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.