¹⁹Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

¹⁹The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

⁵Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

²⁶He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

⁷Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

¹⁹For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

³Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

²¹The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

⁸Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

³And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

²¹Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

⁶And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

¹²For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

¹⁷For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

⁴²And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

⁵For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

¹³And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

²⁷But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

⁸By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

¹Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

⁶And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

²He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

³⁷Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

¹⁴Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

⁸But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

¹⁸Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

²¹And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled