²⁶ My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

¹³ My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

¹⁴ I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

¹⁵ My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

¹⁷ How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

¹⁰ Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

³ He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.

⁴ Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

⁸ He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

³⁶ What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

¹³ Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

²⁵ So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

²⁶ See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

²⁷ And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?

²⁸ And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:

³⁸ He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

¹⁰ For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

¹¹ And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

²⁰ I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

⁶ Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.

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

²⁷ The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.

³¹ The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

¹² So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

¹⁰ The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

³ And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

⁷ The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul.

⁸ The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.

²³ And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

¹¹ And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

¹² That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

¹³ But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

³⁵ And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

³³ I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

⁴ Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

⁵ You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

⁶ Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

⁷ And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

² And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

⁷ (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

⁷ Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

²¹ He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

¹⁷ He who takes note of teaching is a way of life, but he who gives up training is a cause of error.

²³ Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

²⁴ Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

²⁵ For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.

²³ For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

³ For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

⁴ One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

⁹³ I will ever keep your orders in mind; for in them I have life.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

²⁶ And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

²⁷ She said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.

¹⁰ The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

¹ For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

³⁴ And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.

³⁵ Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.

³⁶ What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

³⁷ And what would a man give in exchange for his life?

³⁸ Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

⁶ Let everything which has breath give praise to the Lord. Let the Lord be praised.

⁹ For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.

¹⁵ Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

¹⁶ Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

¹⁹ Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

¹² What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

¹⁴ Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.