⁴⁵ So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

¹² When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.

⁹⁴ I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.

¹⁹ Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

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.

³⁰ When he said this a number came to have faith in him.

³¹ Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

³² And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

³³ They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

³⁴ And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

³⁵ Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

³⁶ If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

³⁹ You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

¹³³ Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.

¹² Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

¹⁷ For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

¹³ And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

¹ He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

⁴ If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

⁵ Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

¹⁶² I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.

¹⁴⁸ In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

¹⁹ I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

⁷¹ It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.