⁶³ I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.

⁶ My eyes will be on those of good faith in the land, so that they may be living in my house; he who is walking in the right way will be my servant.

²⁰ Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

¹⁴ Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

¹⁵ And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

¹¹⁵ Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.

⁷⁹ Let your worshippers be turned to me, and those who have knowledge of your words.

¹⁴ We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

³ We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

¹⁶ Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.

¹⁷ And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.

¹⁸ Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

⁷ Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.

³ As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.