¹⁵ See, I set before you today life^(A) and prosperity,^(B) death^(C) and destruction.^(D)

¹⁹ This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you^(A) that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.^(B) Now choose life, so that you and your children may live ²⁰ and that you may love^(C) the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life,^(D) and he will give^(E) you many years in the land^(F) he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

²³ For the wages of sin is death,^(A) but the gift of God is eternal life^(B) in^[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁶ But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.^(A)

¹⁵ Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;^(A) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.^(B)