¹⁵ of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

¹⁶ so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who `is' in the heavens.

¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.

⁵ I have remembered days of old, I have meditated on all Thine acts, On the work of Thy hand I muse.

⁴ and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'

¹⁵ And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves --

¹⁴ knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,

⁵ and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

¹⁶ the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

⁶ These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

⁹⁹ Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies `are' my meditation.

⁹⁷ `Mem.' O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it `is' my meditation.

⁴⁸ And I lift up my hands unto Thy commands, That I have loved, And I do meditate on Thy statutes!

² But -- in the law of Jehovah `is' his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

¹⁴ Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

³ My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart `are' things of understanding.

⁶ If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches -- I meditate on Thee.

¹² And I have meditated on all Thy working, And I talk concerning Thy doings.

³⁴ Sweet is my meditation on Him, I -- I do rejoice in Jehovah.

⁵ Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.

¹⁵ In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.

²³ Princes also sat -- against me they spoke, Thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes,

⁸ the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.