¹⁰¹ I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.

¹⁵ My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

¹⁰ For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

¹¹ And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

¹ So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

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;

³⁶ Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

⁶ We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

¹²⁶ It is time, O Lord, for you to let your work be seen; for they have made your law without effect.

¹⁰⁴ Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

⁵⁹ I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.

⁶⁰ I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

²³ And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.