¹³ You shall be ^[a]blameless before the Lord your God.

^48 (A)Therefore you shall be perfect, just ^(B)as your Father in heaven is perfect.

The Sign of the Covenant^(A)

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord ^(B)appeared to Abram and said to him, ^(C)“I am ^[a]Almighty God; ^(D)walk before Me and be ^(E)blameless.

Noah Pleases God

⁹ This is the genealogy of Noah. ^(A)Noah was a just man, ^[a]perfect in his generations. Noah ^(B)walked with God.

Pressing Toward the Goal

¹² Not that I have already ^(A)attained,^[a] or am already ^(B)perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

⁸ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you ^[a]considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and ^[b]shuns evil?”

Job and His Family in Uz

1 There was a man ^(A)in the land of Uz, whose name was ^(B)Job; and that man was ^(C)blameless and upright, and one who ^(D)feared God and ^[a]shunned evil.

² Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before ^[a]God.