10 But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
2 For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he* {is} a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
31 As for *God, his way is perfect; The word of Jehovah is tried: He is a shield to all that trust in him.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning.
10 Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.
11 I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full.
24 Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; {he} is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
1 ALEPH. Blessed are the perfect in the way, who walk in the law of Jehovah.
30 As for *God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.
14 And to all these {add} love, which is the bond of perfectness.
2 And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of {your} mind, that ye may prove what {is} the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
15 See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;
1 If then {there be} any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of {the} Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,
2 fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;
3 {let} nothing {be} in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;
4 regarding not each his own {qualities}, but each those of others also.
5 For let this mind be in you which {was} also in Christ Jesus;
6 who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;
7 but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in {the} likeness of men;
8 and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and {that the} death of {the} cross.
9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal {beings},
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ {is} Lord to God {the} Father's glory.
12 So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
13 for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to {his} good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,
15 that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in {the} world,
16 holding forth {the} word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.
17 But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.
18 In like manner do *ye* also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
19 But I hope in {the} Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that *I* also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.
20 For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.
21 For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.
23 Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:
24 but I trust in {the} Lord that I myself also shall soon come;
25 but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,
26 since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;
27 for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that *I* might be the less sorrowful.
29 Receive him therefore in {the} Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour;
30 because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.
21 Jesus said to him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell what thou hast and give to {the} poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
9 and having been perfected, became to all them that obey him, author of eternal salvation;
2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth from his heart.
3 {He that} slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;