Listen to Me, My people; and give ear to Me, O My nation; for a law shall go out from Me, and I will make My justice to rest for a light of the people.

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law; do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.

Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who were carried by Me from the belly, who were sustained from the womb;

even to your old age, I am He; and to the gray hairs I will bear you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Listen to me O Jacob, and Israel My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.

Why do you weigh out money for what is not bread, and your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Extend your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law; do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.

But justice shall return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, but He loves him who pursues righteousness.

He who follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have taken hold of righteousness, even the righteousness of faith;

Why? Because it was not by faith, but as out of works of the Law. For they stumbled at the stumbling stone.

Therefore let us pursue the things of peace and the things that build up one another.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and stretching forward to those things which are ahead,

But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

But flee youthful lusts; and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord;

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain. I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

This is the generation of Jacob of those who seek Him, who seek Your face. Selah.

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek Jehovah!

Seek Jehovah and His strength; seek His face continually!

Seek Jehovah, and live, that He not break out like a fire on the house of Joseph, and consume it, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel;

Seek Jehovah, all the meek of the earth who have done His justice; seek righteousness; seek meekness. It may be that you shall be hidden in the day of the anger of Jehovah.

Then God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall one be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?

Therefore remember that you, being Gentiles in the flesh; who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands;

that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.