² Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

⁸ Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.

⁵ and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I `am' Jehovah.

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;

⁸ For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: After honour He hath sent me unto the nations who are spoiling you, For he who is coming against you, Is coming against the daughter of His eye.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.

⁴ And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

¹⁰ He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.

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;

¹ Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

² in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

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

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

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.'

⁴⁹ because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,

⁵⁰ and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'

¹³ Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she `is' thy life.