Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.

In the path of righteousness there is life, but another path leads to death.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.

Who comprehends the mind of the Lord, or gives him instruction as his counselor?

“Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you!

The Lord spoke concerning Babylon and the land of Babylonia through the prophet Jeremiah.

א (Alef) I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

All the crowds were amazed and said, “Could this one be the Son of David?”

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He replied, “You say so.”

Thus Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what should I compare it?

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?