⁴⁸ And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.

¹⁵ I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.

² But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

¹² Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

¹² Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.

⁹ And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.

¹⁷ If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

²³ Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;

²⁴ For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

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.