⁴ As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

¹¹ They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

² So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

¹⁸ Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

¹⁷ And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

³ Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

¹⁷ Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.

¹⁰ Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.

⁷ Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

⁴ But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.

¹⁰ For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

¹¹ Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

¹² Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

¹³ Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

¹⁴ Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

¹⁵ Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

⁹ <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.

¹⁰ I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

¹¹ I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

² The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

³ They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

³³ If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

¹⁶ How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

¹¹ And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

¹¹ And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.