⁵ Thus said Jehovah: Cursed `is' the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.

¹ Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

¹ An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

¹⁷ What `is' man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

¹⁵ the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,

⁴⁵ so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam `is' for a life-giving spirit,

⁴⁶ but that which is spiritual `is' not first, but that which `was' natural, afterwards that which `is' spiritual.

⁴⁷ The first man `is' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is' the Lord out of heaven;

⁴⁸ as `is' the earthy, such `are' also the earthy; and as `is' the heavenly, such `are' also the heavenly;

⁴⁹ and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

⁵⁰ And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

⁶ and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, `What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?

⁷ for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --

⁸ a two-souled man `is' unstable in all his ways.

⁹ And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

²⁴ From Jehovah `are' the steps of a man, And man -- how understandeth he his way?

¹ Of man `are' arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.

¹¹ and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

²¹ For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

¹¹ When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

²² ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

²⁴ and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

¹⁷ `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

¹² because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;