⁴ For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

¹¹ Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

¹⁷ And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

⁴⁶ I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

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;

²⁹ If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

¹¹ For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

¹² Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

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;

¹³ Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

¹⁵ Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

⁹ (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

³² And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

¹ Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

² And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

⁸ I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

⁹ For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

³⁶ Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

² But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

⁸ Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

⁹ I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

¹⁰ And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

¹⁰ Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁶ And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.