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

¹²⁸ Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

⁹ Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

¹³ Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.

¹⁵ Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

¹² There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

¹³ The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

¹⁰⁰ I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

⁹⁸ Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

²⁹ Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.

³⁰ I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.

³ I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

¹⁰ You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

⁴ He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.