¹⁶ Whoso is keeping the command is keeping his soul, Whoso is despising His ways dieth.

²⁸ And he said to him, `Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.'

¹⁷ A highway of the upright `is', `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

¹³ Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.

²⁸ And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping `it'!'

¹⁰ if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

¹¹ these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.

¹² `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

¹³ greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

¹⁴ ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

¹⁹ the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.

³ and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

⁴ he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

²² and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

¹⁴ `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

²² Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?'

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

¹⁵ `If ye love me, my commands keep,

²⁶ for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

³² Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

²³ Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

⁵ Thorns -- snares `are' in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

¹⁸ Without a Vision is a people made naked, And whoso is keeping the law, O his happiness!

⁵ Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.

¹³ The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- `Fear God, and keep His commands, for this `is' the whole of man.

²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

⁵ The voice of the trumpet he heard, And he hath not taken warning, his blood is on him, And he who took warning his soul hath delivered.

¹⁸ To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.