⁹ These `are' births of Noah: Noah `is' a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

⁵ and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

²⁴ And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him.

²² And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹ And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

¹ And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I `am' God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name -- and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

¹⁴ and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job -- they by their righteousness deliver their own soul -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

²⁰ and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah -- neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.

⁷ By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

⁵ and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁸ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

⁹ not having my righteousness, which `is' of law, but that which `is' through faith of Christ -- the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

¹¹ if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.

¹² Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

¹³ brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

¹⁴ to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

¹¹ and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'

¹⁷ For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

²² And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'

¹ This `is' an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;

¹ And these `are' births of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and born to them are sons after the deluge.

¹⁵ And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, `God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day:

⁶ And Solomon saith, `Thou hast done with Thy servant David my father great kindness, as he walked before Thee in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee, and Thou dost keep for him this great kindness, and dost give to him a son sitting on his throne, as `at' this day.

¹⁷ yet the high places have not turned aside from Israel; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect all his days.

² and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah -- only, not with a perfect heart.

⁴ A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter `is' the perfect righteous one.

³⁷ Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each `is' peace.

¹⁸ And the path of the righteous `is' as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

²⁰ Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

⁴ Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

²⁵ And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name `is' Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,

⁵⁰ And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous,

⁴ These `are' births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;