⁴ For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

¹⁷ And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.

²³ And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.

¹³ But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

¹⁴ Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

¹⁷ You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

¹³ Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

¹³ Truly, the upright will give praise to your name: the holy will have a place in your house.

⁷ The worker of deceit will not come into my house; the false man will have no place before my eyes.

²⁰ What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

¹⁵ For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.

²¹ These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

⁵ The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

²⁷ And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.