¹⁸ And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

¹⁷ The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

²¹ Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;

¹⁰ So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

⁸ And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

¹⁴ But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

¹⁵ And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

¹⁷ So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

¹ Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

² If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

⁴ Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

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

⁴⁷ And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

²³ For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

¹⁹ He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

²⁰ He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

¹³⁰ The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.

¹⁰⁴ Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

¹⁰⁵ <NUN> Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.

⁹⁸ Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

⁹⁹ I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

¹⁰⁰ I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

⁸ The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

¹³ And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

¹⁴ And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant: