The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, and his tongue will speak of judgment.

And they shall teach My people [to distinguish] between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them [the difference] between unclean and clean.

And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it. They shall rightly observe My ordinances, and judge My judgments, and keep My statutes and My commandments in all My feasts; and they shall hallow My Sabbaths.

My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you, that you shall not minister as priest unto Me: and [as] you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

And they sent their disciples to Him with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You show favoritism to anyone.

And they came and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that You are true, and it does not make a difference to you about anyone; for You do not look on the face of men, but you teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Then they asked Him, saying, "Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show favoritism, but teach the way of God in truth:

Be diligent to show yourself approved unto God, a worker unashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

But shun profane and empty babblings; for they will advance to more ungodliness.

For a bishop must be unimpeachable, as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,

holding fast to the faithful word as he was taught, that he may be able to exhort by sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

And no guile was found in their mouth, for they are blameless.

And Enoch lived one hundred and sixty-five years, and begat Methuselah.

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

[ 6:10] And these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man; being perfect in his generation; Noah was well pleasing to God.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before Me, and be blameless.

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

But if they had stood in My counsel, and if they had hearkened to My words, then would they have turned My people from their evil practices.

And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and [some] of the many righteous as the stars forever and ever.

And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.

And he himself will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, [in order for] them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

Brothers, if anyone among you wanders away from the truth, and anyone turns him back,

let him know that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.