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Those who walk blamelessly and do what is right
    and speak the truth from their heart;(A)

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18 One who walks in integrity will be safe,
    but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.[a](A)

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  1. 28.18 Syr: Heb fall all at once

Rules for the New Life

25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.(A)

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Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices

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12 Which of you desires life
    and covets many days to enjoy good?(A)
13 Keep your tongue from evil
    and your lips from speaking deceit.(B)

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he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
    he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,(A)
guarding the paths of justice
    and preserving the way of his faithful ones.(B)

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Little children,[a] let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

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  1. 3.7 Other ancient authorities read Children

whoever says, “I abide in him,” ought to walk in the same way as he walked.(A)

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10 For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.(A)

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35 but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness[a] is acceptable to him.(A)

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  1. 10.35 Or acts justly

16 These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,(A) 17 do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.”(B)

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Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
    Is the Lord’s patience exhausted?
    Are these his doings?
Do not my words do good
    to one who walks uprightly?

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Those who have clean hands and pure hearts,
    who do not lift up their souls to what is false
    and do not swear deceitfully.(A)

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33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,(A)

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14 Blessed are those who wash their robes,[a] so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral[b] and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.(A)

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  1. 22.14 Other ancient authorities read do his commandments
  2. 22.15 Or prostitutes

15 Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly,
    who despise the gain of oppression,
who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it,
    who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed
    and shut their eyes from looking on evil,

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14 But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews?”[a](A)

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  1. 2.14 Some interpreters hold that the quotation extends into the following paragraph

10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, both the Jew first and the Greek.

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But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)

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  1. 21.8 Or the unbelieving
  2. 21.8 Or prostitutes

Children of God

29 If you perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.(A)

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Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.(A)

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For he said, “Surely they are my people,
    children who will not act deceitfully,”
and he became their savior

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11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
    from those who walk uprightly.(A)

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